With the serious part of the hurricane season about to begin, the soothsayers at Colorado State University said this morning they’re sticking with their June 1 forecast of a below-average season.
The team’s predicting 10 named storms, with four of them becoming hurricanes, and one growing to a “major” storm, of Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, with top sustained winds of at least 111 mph.
Historically, the season starts to heat up around Aug. 1, with systems now inclined to form far out in the Atlantic, giving them plenty of time to feast on waters grown bathtub-warm over the summer.
The June forecast actually had been up a little from the team’s April numbers of nine, three and one.
The historical average for 1981 to 2010 is 12, 6½, and two.
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