It's that time of the year again. Government scientists are predicting an above normal Hurricane season.
That's not the kind of prediction we want to hear after coming off a record number of tornadoes sweeping across the south and tremendous flooding along the Mississippi River.
The hurricane forecast calls for 12 to 18 named storms. Of those storms, as many as 10 could become hurricanes with as many as six reaching the category of major hurricanes.
Although here in the Ark-La-Tex we are not directly in harms way, we do run risk of torrential rain from these storms.
Past experience with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita remind us, that these storms hitting the Louisiana or Texas Gulf Coasts can have a dramatic impact on the overall welfare of our states.
There is concern that federal funding for new weather satellites will be cut.
If that happens, officials at NOAA say their ability to predict and track these and other storms will be impaired. In the Ark-La-Tex, the more advanced the weather warnings, the better. Our congressman and senators need to take a close look at this before money for weather satellites is cut.
I'm James Smith.
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