2015 Hurricane Season Expected to be Less Active than Average

Eric Staats, Naples Daily News | April 10, 2015

Colorado State University researchers are predicting a below average 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, with seven named storms, leaving Henri, the possible eighth named storm, out of the alphabetical running.

Of the seven storms, three are expected to become hurricanes and one is forecast to reach major hurricane strength with winds of 111 mph or more, researchers reported in their annual forecast released Thursday.

The report comes with a caution: "It just takes that one storm to make it an active season," said Phil Klotzbach, the lead author of the report put out by CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project since 1984.

Take 1992, which also was supposed to be a quiet year for hurricanes. That held true until Aug. 24, when Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida with 175 mph winds. The storm killed 23 people in the U.S. and caused $26 billion in damage.

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