Energy Matters

It’s not too early to make a 2008 hurricane forecast—or issue a press release about it. Simonton, the window-maker, has used the upcoming season to remind potential customers their homes need their StormBreaker Plus 300VL windows.

The season starts June 1, but the Weather Research Center in Houston expects the first hurricane in May this year, the window-maker reports. And, it seems things look bad for Georgia and North Carolina, which could be a drag for coastal golf there but is no worry for oil and natural gas supply. Read the full report from the StormBreaker Plus 300VL window-maker here. simontonhurricanereport3408.pdf

Meanwhile, here are other worthy 2008 hurricane-season prognostications from a lifelong Gulf Coast resident.

– The 2008 hurricane season will be remarkable. It will either be remarkable for its greater-intensity storms, or for its lower-intensity storms, or for being amazingly similar to the 2007 season.

– If there are any storms worth naming this year, their names will be stunningly in alphabetical order.

– All of these named storms will amazingly also have minimum 50-mph wind speeds.

– The odds are 50% that a 2008 eastern storms will strike the Atlantic coast; the odds are 50% one will strike a coast in or along the Gulf of Mexico.

– Odds are 100% any western storm will strike the Pacific coast.

– Non-essential Gulf Coast residents will take the first Monday of September off in 2008 either because of a hurricane or because of a holiday or because they are helping out with the Jerry Lewis Telethon.

– Each tropical-system development will prompt The Weather Channel to reshow footage from Hurricane Katrina.

– Geraldo will reappear in New Orleans upon warning of the first 2008 system that has 10%-or-better odds of hitting New Orleans.

– A homeowner with StormBreaker Plus 300VL windows that survived a hurricane will appear in a Simonton commercial; a homeowner whose windows did not survive (hey, maybe a tree fell on them) will not appear in a Simonton commercial.

–Nissa Darbonne, Executive Editor, Oil and Gas Investor, A&D Watch and Oil and Gas Investor This Week, ndarbonne@hartenergy.com

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