Hurricane Season, Already Busy, May Get Even Busier
“There’s a possibility that the season could be extremely active,” said Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster
with the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In all, he said, the center was forecasting 14 to 19 named storms, with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher, including five to nine hurricanes.
Government forecasters said Wednesday that the Atlantic hurricane season, already a busy one, may be the busiest since 2010
and is likely to produce two to five major hurricanes.
The latest, Franklin, is expected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday night, Dr. Bell said,
with winds above 73 m.p.h., before making landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
