"Get ready to batten down the hatches. Again.

In a preseason forecast issued Thursday, Colorado State University’s Tropical Meteorology Project predicts the upcoming hurricane season that begins June 1 will again be busy, although not as bad as the brutal 2017 season. The forecast calls for seven hurricanes, three hurricanes at Category 3 intensity or worse, and 14 named storms.

Hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach, a protégé of pioneering meteorologist William Gray, blamed warm waters in the western Atlantic and the mediocre odds for an El Niño in the Pacific for the uptick."

Jenny Staletovich reports for the Miami Herald April 5, 2018. [2]