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According to an article by Brian Livingston in Mississippi’s Laurel Leader Call, Colorado State University researchers have said this year’s hurricane season will be active, but fewer major storms are likely to make landfall than last year. Livingston says an “updated forecast from a team led by William Gray calls for 17 named storms in the Atlantic basin between today and Nov. 30. The team said nine storms are expected to become hurricanes, and five of those are expected to develop into intense or major hurricanes with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater.” Last year, he says, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported 28 tropical storms, 15 hurricanes and seven intense hurricanes in the Atlantic. This year’s forecast listed an 82 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will make landfall this season, compared with the long-term average probability of 52 percent. It listed a 69 percent chance of a major hurricane making landfall on the East Coast, including the Florida peninsula, compared with 31 percent long-term, and a 38 percent chance of landfall on the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Brownsville, Texas, compared with 31 percent long-term.
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