Colorado State University researchers increased its forecast for the hurricane season the day after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas.The new forecast increases the predicted number of named storms in 2024 to 25.The forecast predicts that 12 of those storms would reach hurricane status and six would become major hurricanes, a Category 3 or higher hurricane.In June, CSU predicted 23 named storms with 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes.
"The CSU scientists also give a 57 percent chance that a Category 3 or higher hurricane will make landfall somewhere in the U.S.That is higher than the 43 percent full-season average from 1880-2020."Our confidence this year is higher than normal for a July forecast based on the strength and persistence of the current hurricane-favorable large-scale environmental conditions," the forecasters wrote.
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