Weather Services International (WSI) has slightly lowered its forecast for the 2010 tropical storm season due to a "relatively inactive June/July period."

Instead of predicting 20 named storms for the entire season, WSI dropped the number down one spot to 19 named storms. However, it kept the same numbers from its June 23 forecast for two other categories: Hurricanes (11) and Intense Hurricanes (5).

"While all of the primary drivers are strongly enabling for tropical activity, we have had a slow start relative to other very active seasons," said WSI Chief Meteorologist Dr. Todd Crawford, in a release. "Further, a pocket of very dry air in the tropical Atlantic will likely limit development in the near-term. Because of these factors, we have decreased our forecast total number…[but] we still expect an extremely active August-October period."

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