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To see that. remember it will balance itself out. a week from now or so, the cold in the west will be spreading east and knock down the warmth and it will all go back and have to start other again. the biggest thing this year is this tornado outbreak if it comes over the next several days will stick out like a sore thumb because of the lack activity so far. we're less than 25% of normal. only several of maybe 15 20 tornados above the record low for the date. it's been a quiet season. you would expect some response like this in the west. >> all right. thank you. we no doubt will probably be bur...

Is it odor coincidental. we had a slow tornado season. this is the start of it. i think hurricane activity off the southeast coast of the united states and obviously what you refer to in denver. are they tied or different events? >> what happens is the atmosphere goes through periods where there's a lot of amplification, buckling of the jet stream. and there are periods where this flattens out. this case it's buckled into the western part of the united states. that pumps the ridge over the north eastern part of the united states. old guys like me, ridge over troubled waters. whenever the big h...

Temperatures in the eastern pacific ocean and that is what causes all kinds of changes across the world >> what is the potential impact on the united states? >> then we see changes with the weather and one is with the hurricane season. in the atlantic ocean you will see increase wind sheer and that will hinder the hurricane development so less activity with the hurricane season. and colorado state university and dr. gray every year issue a forecast for the 2014 or following at lantic season and they are predicting it to be below average. on average you see 12. this year they are forecasting ni...

I'm, like, a fourth generation here and this was devastating. >> reporter: that was a year ago after superstorm sandy slammed into the northeastern united states. today the atlantic hurricane season has been a dud. take a look at the numbers. only two hurricanes had formed in the atlantic this year and neither one has been a major hurricane. a category 3 or greater. so, what's the science behind the lack of hurricanes this year? >> it's going to be the question of the season and i think there are a couple of culprits. there's been quite a bit of wind shear in the upper atmosphere. hurricanes d...

The water temperatures will be fairly conducive to further development. so as a consequence we could see a category 1 hurricane develop by this afternoon. we'll be receiving another update from the national hurricane center coming up at 8:00. a category 2 hurricane going into thursday. as it begins to move into cooler waters, we think it will be downgraded to a category 1. all those theoretical but we look at the water temperatures here and very conducive to hurricane development with water temperatures 80 degrees and above, but further north those water temperatures are only in the 80s. we wa...