Source: WRAL 4/16/18

The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season will be significantly more active than average, researchers at North Carolina State University said Monday. 2 The season should see 14 to 18 tropical storms and hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, said Lian Xie, professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences. 
Since 1950, the average for named storms in a year has been 11.

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