NU Online News Service, April 7, 3:59 p.m. EDT

The Colorado State University forecast team said today that the chance of a major hurricane hitting U.S. shores is better than 50 percent this year during a generally moderate hurricane season.

Their outlook calls for 12 named storms to form in the Atlantic with two of them expected to become intense hurricanes. The number is less than their December forecast.

The forecast team of William Gray and lead forecaster Phil Klotzbach based their prediction on the potential for a weak El Nino ocean atmospheric event and an observed cooling of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures.

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