Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

[NewsWhore]

After last years disasters associated with two tropical storms, people are listening more closely to what forecasters are saying. The National Hurricane Center in Miami has sent forecaster John Morales to Santo Domingo to give a lecture on "The Eye of the Storm". According to Morales, this will be an "active" storm season with fifteen to seventeen named storms of which eight are likely to become hurricanes, and four will be major storms classed as Category 3 or higher. Morales told Listin Diario reporter Viviano de Leon that this was a natural occurrence given the high temperature of the ocean, and the current trend is expected to continue for another 10 to 15 years. Morales had words of praise for the initiative taken by the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) in creating a network for emergency situations that will allow all the media to have access to the same news at the same time.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Santo Domingo was drenched by a tropical wave.
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