If Colorado State University experts are right, we need to prepare for another above-normal Atlantic hurricane season with 17 named storms, nine of them becoming hurricanes with four growing to major hurricanes.
The average is 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three hurricanes of at least Category 3.
Last season there were 18 named storms.
Eleven of those were hurricanes with five major storms.
Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton all made Florida landfalls.
Dr. Phil Klotzbach believes this year might be less active than last year because, while warmer than normal, the tropical Atlantic isn't as warm as last year, but we won't likely see El Nino conditions, which lead to fewer hurricanes.
This season's forecast puts the chance of a major hurricane landfall on the U.S. east coast including Florida at 26% and 33% for a major storm landfall along the Gulf coast.