Terra Daily, via Agence France-Presse: Two more hurricanes, one of them of major intensity, are expected to form over the Atlantic ocean this year, forecasters said in a report out on Tuesday. In all, four named storms are likely to form in the remainder of the six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30, according to
Two of the storms should strengthen into hurricanes, including one intense hurricane, the forecasters said. A hurricane described as intense has maximum sustained winds of at least 178 kilometers (111 miles) per hour, meaning it reaches category three or higher on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale. So far this year there have been 13 tropical storms in the Atlantic basin, four of which strengthened into hurricanes.
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