Colorado State University News

Colorado State Running Out of Money for Hurricane Forecasting

Colorado State University, which pioneered seasonal hurricane forecasting 30 years ago, may have issued its last prediction. The school’s Tropical Meteorological Project need $150,000 or it will end in February, said Phil Klotzbach, lead author of the forecast. William Gray, …

2013 Hurricane Prediction: 72% Chance on East Coast; 48% for Florida

The Colorado State University team is predicting an above-average 2013 Atlantic basin hurricane season with 18 named storms and a 72 percent chance one will make landfall somewhere along the entire Eastern seaboard. Nine of those 18 named storms are …

Colorado State University Insurer Won’t Cover Lost Horse Genetics

Horse owners and breeders who lost frozen sperm, eggs and embryos in last summer’s fire at CSU’s Equine Reproduction Laboratory are being offered $1,000 credits toward future services if they agree to not sue the university. University spokeswoman Dell Rae …

Hurricane Prediction Delayed Until Spring

Hurricane forecaster William Gray will wait until spring to predict how many storms will form in the Atlantic. Gray and his research partner at Colorado State University, Philip Klotzbach, usually start making predictions in December but this month, for the …

Colorado State Student Loses Legs While Train Hopping

A 17-year-old girl whose legs were severed while trying to hop a freight train was trying to get back to Fort Collins, Colo., where she attends Colorado State University, after a trip to Denver, police said Tuesday. The teen’s legs …

Forecast Remains for 16 Named Atlantic Storms

Weather forecasters at Colorado State University are holding steady in their prediction of an above-average hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean. The forecast issued last week remained unchanged from an earlier prediction issued in April. Researchers predict 16 names storms …

Forecast: Above Average Atlantic Hurricane Season Coming

The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average with nine hurricanes, five of them major, with a more than 70 percent chance that at least one of them will hit the U.S. coastline, Colorado State University forecasters predicted Wednesday. …