Day one of the 2010 Hurricane season was officially Tuesday, day 42 of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010. As the BP oil spill live feed continues to show crude gushing from the depths, the 2010 hurricane season forecast predicts one of the strongest hurricane seasons on record. The oil spill top kill attempted over the holiday weekend failed, along with BPs hopes to stop the leak. The next option BP will try for stemming the flow of oil, cutting the broken pipe from the wellhead and placing a cap with a hose over it, may slow down but not stop completely stop the leak. The leak may not be fully contained until relief wells are completed in August. The BP oil spill has dumped up to 100 million gallons into the gulf, where the first storms of hurricane season 2010 are expected to appear.
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Forecast – 2010 hurricane season
Hurricane season 2010 officially begins June 1 and lasts through November 30. Typically major hurricanes form in the deep Atlantic and unlike cash now same day, can be followed for days by forecasters and sensationalized by the media before arriving. But AOL reports the first storms of the 2010 hurricane season forecast could form along the Southeast coast or within the northeastern Caribbean, and they’re probably to happen in the Gulf of Mexico. Sea temperatures within the Atlantic aren’t expected to brew storms early in hurricane season. Early season storms form closer to land and instead of tracking a storm for a week or a lot more, there may be a warning of just a couple of hours or days.
Leak foils oil spill top kill
When hurricane season 2010 arrives in the gulf with a storm, the oil spill response effort will suffer. In addition to the oil spill being spread across a wider area of shoreline, efforts to stop the leak might be delayed for weeks. The New York Times reports that following the oil spill top kill failure, BP will try to shear off the collapsed pipe leading from the wellhead, place a cap over the opening and funnel leaking oil through a hose to the surface. The New York Times reports that BP's next option after the oil spill top kill bust is to cut off the broken pipe from the wellhead, put a containment dome over the opening and siphon oil to the surface. When the pipe is cut, viewers of the BP oil spill live feed can expect to see even more oil gushing until a cap is installed. when a hurricane arrives, the pipe cutting option fails when the crew disconnects the hose and goes ashore to wait out the storm.
Toxic storm surge predicted
Hurricane season 2010 creates the danger of a storm surge laden with oil and toxic oil dispersant that could make parts of the coastline in the Gulf of Mexico uninhabitable. To predict where the oil slick could possibly be driven by gulf hurricanes, the Gerson Lehman Group analyzed tracking data from recent storms. A hurricane like Gustav in 2008, which tracked into the west-central gulf, would drive a toxic storm surge west to the Texas coast with its counter-clockwise spin. A hurricane with a track like Ida in 2009, which tracked into the east-central gulf, would move the toxic storm surge into Florida’s west coast. Areas miles from the coast could possibly be coated in an aerosol of oil and toxic dispersants carried by hurricane-force winds.
Hurricane forecast 2010 details
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association hurricane season 2010 forecast predicts up to 23 named storms, with three to seven major hurricanes. Storms with winds reaching 39 mph or more are named. Hurricane status could be reached by up to 14 when winds go past 74 mph. Three to seven might be Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricanes with winds of at least 111 mph. The strongest tropical system recorded in June was Hurricane Audrey, which made landfall in southern Louisiana on June 27, 1957, as a Category 4 storm, with a sustained wind of 145 mph.
Additional details at these websites
AOL News
New York Times
Gerson Lehman Group
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