Posted On: November 30, 2007, 7:54 am CST

Posted By: Anon

I know we're all concerned about the number of hurricanes that will impact us in 2008. Some of us as property owners, others as insurance agents, others as underwriters. Because of the cost associated with "professional" meteoroligcal modelling many of us do not have access to our own forecasts for our specific needs. To solve this problem I've combined my many years of insurance knowledge as well as the ability to know when it's going to rain with a game I played in high school, AD&D. I'm proud to say this method has the same success rate as the "professional" forecasters over the last 3 years.

1) Get 2 6-sided dice. (perferably one red, one white).
2) Roll both, the white die is your first number, the red your second (i.e. a 2 on the white, 5 on the red = 25) - this is the number of named storms for the current year.
3) Roll both again using the same white/red order. This is the percentage of those named storms that will become a hurricane.
4) Roll only the red die, this is the number of hurricanes that will hit mainland US.
5) Roll both dice again still using the white/red method. This is the percent of the storms hitting the US that will be Category 3 or higher.

Try it, it works as well as the high-paid consultants.

Patent pending.