Another system has formed, meanwhile, off the West Coast of Africa, currently rated 'medium risk' for Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane formation. We are now smack bang in the middle of the busiest of the Hurricane season.
Orange juice prices shot up on Monday on fears Fay could
hit Florida's main citrus growing areas. But traders said the
areas would have to be hit by several much stronger storms, as
they were in 2004 and 2005, for fruit trees to be affected.
The state was hit by a series of hurricanes in 2004 and
2005, including Katrina before it went on to devastate New
Orleans and kill 1,500 people on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
But the United States escaped serious blows in 2006 and
2007, and authorities fear people might have become blase.
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