Hurricane season News

Washington - What does abortion have to do with flood insurance you may ask? Well, that's what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would like to know as well.

Tampa - Florida officials, along with emergency experts, held a hurricane practice drill Wednesday in the event of a major hurricane hitting the Tampa Bay area during the Republican National Convention this summer.

Port-au-prince - Tropical Storm Emily left Puerto Rico flooded and is now aimed at Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Haitian authorities are preparing to evacuate thousands of people who are still living in tents and temporary structures following last year's earthquake.

Washington - The American Red Cross recently sent an emergency shipment of blood to Haiti to help alleviate the temporary blood shortage in hospitals in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Blood donors are needed to meet additional requests from the island country.

The start of hurricane season may give BP even more uncertainty in its attempts to cap the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at the Deepwater Horizon rig.

Hurricane experts are speculating that the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season could be an uncharacteristically busy season. The season begins on June first.

Is it the first hurricane of the 2009 season? Tropical Storm Andres formed in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to strike somewhere on the Southern coast of Mexico. It is strengthening and could reach hurricane strength over the next 36-hours.

It is official, with the NOAA reducing December's prediction of probability for having an above-average hurricane season to only 25 per cent. May's official forecast is showing an average season but with a small bit of uncertainty.

A tropical depression couldn't wait until Saturday, the start of hurricane season to form. Located off the coast of Costa Rica the depression is expected to be a tropic storm within 24 hours.