Hurricane Season, Already Busy, May Get Even Busier<br />“There’s a possibility that the season could be extremely active,” said Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster<br />with the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<br />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.<br />Government forecasters said Wednesday that the Atlantic hurricane season, already a busy one, may be the busiest since 2010<br />and is likely to produce two to five major hurricanes.<br />The latest, Franklin, is expected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday night, Dr. Bell said,<br />with winds above 73 m.p.h., before making landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
