America may be in for another brutal hurricane season

NOAA is predicting up to six major storms. A typical year has only three.

Control room operators participate in a hurricane response exercise in Florida on May 21.
(Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

We could be in for an extremely active hurricane season this summer, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center projected Thursday that 13 to 20 named storms would develop over the Atlantic Ocean during the season, which begins June 1 and lasts through November. As many as 11 could become hurricanes, and up to six of those could be major hurricanes with winds of 111 miles per hour or more.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.