Hurricane season is expected to be worse than normal

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Hurricane season is expected to be worse than normal

Hurricane season is still weeks away but experts are already anticipating that this year could be more active than normal - a forecast that emergency officials may find troubling as much of the country remains in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic.

The season officially begins June 1, but some meteorologists who have been tracking ocean and atmospheric dynamics over the past few months say conditions are ripe for storms.

"I'm sure nobody wants to hear this with everything else going on, but it's looking like it will be a relatively active season," said Phil Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Klotzbach and his colleagues at Colorado State released a forecast in early April that predicts 16 named storms with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher. Of those, the researchers ’models suggest eight could become hurricanes, including four" major "hurricanes that reach Category 3 or higher.

An average season has 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is expected to release its official hurricane season outlook later this month.

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