A well-known team of forecasters from Colorado State University say at least one named storm will be spinning in the Atlantic Ocean for an equivalent of three months of the upcoming six-month hurricane season.

Of greater consequence, the team says there is a 72 percent chance at least one of these storms will strengthen to a major hurricane and make landfall somewhere on the U.S. coast from Texas to Maine.

Current available evidence of ocean temperature and other factors leads forecasters Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray of the university's Department of Atmospheric Science to call for 18 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes of Category 3 (sustained winds of at least 11 mph) during the hurricane season.

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