Tropical Storm Risk, the London-based climate and risk forecasting consortium, said today in a new prediction that there is a greatly increased chance of hurricanes hitting the United States this storm season.

TSR in its early August outlook said it expected Atlantic basin activity to be about 80 percent above the 1950-2007 long-term norm. Now the consortium said it has raised its forecast for U.S. landfalling activity to 150 percent above norm.

The hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, with tomorrow being the peak point in hurricane climate activity.

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