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Dr. Jeff Masters is widely considered one of the foremost experts on hurricanes. He is the co-founder of the popular weather website Wunderground.com, where you can find his informative blog posts about hurricanes and weather in general throughout the year.

Welcome to August! Not only do the temperatures sore in the Bayou City, August is the peak of hurricane season. Up until now, we've been fortunate to avoid any significant tropical disturbances, but so has the entire US coastline. With only three named storms and no hurricanes, we are well behind the abnormally high 2005 season that, by this time last year, had already produced 7 named storms and 3 hurricanes including 2 major...

We at Houstonist already have our bottled water, plywood, cat carriers and extra gasoline just in case a hurricane evacuation is necessary this summer. We don't want to get caught in another hurricane-induced melee again this year, but that shouldn't be a problem — at least in July. Dr. Jeff Masters, one of the most well-respected tropics forecasters on the net, has given us all hope with a better-than-expected forecast for the month of June....

At this time last year, the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico had already seen five named tropical systems including three hurricanes. The Gulf Coast saw all five make landfall on her shores - three in the US (two of those hurricanes) and two in Mexico.