Forecasters Raise Outlook for Atlantic Hurricane Season

Published August 09, 2012

| Reuters

The U.S. weather agency NOAA, raised its outlook for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season on
Thursday and now expects near-normal to above-normal activity.

Forecasters expect the June-through-November season will bring 12 to 17 tropical storms, with five to eight of those becoming hurricanes and two to three strengthening into 'major hurricanes.'

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