Up to 8 Hurricanes Expected This Season
From Times Wire Reports
FLORIDA
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The 2002 Atlantic hurricane season could see an above-average number of tropical storms and up to eight hurricanes, U.S. government forecasters said in Miami.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that nine to 13 tropical storms will form during the season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. There were nine hurricanes last year.
Six to eight of this year’s storms may become hurricanes and two or three of those could be “major” storms with winds of 111 mph or more, NOAA said.
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