Hurricane experts have been predicting a busier season thanwe've been used to recently, with 14 to 19 named storms.

Now that Hurricane Jose is looming in the Atlantic Ocean, andHurricane Katia is swirling in the Gulf of Mexico, there have been11 named storms so far, and Tropical Depression 14 shows signs ofbecoming a tropic storm, possibly another named hurricane in thesecond half of September.

Hurricane Harvey hit sections of Texas causing massive flooding,then Hurricane Irma cut a swath of destruction across the Caribbeanbefore heading to the U.S. mainland. According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, theestimate of combined insured losses from Irma will be between $20billion and $40 billion. For selected Caribbean islands, theestimates of insured losses vary from $5 billion to $15 billion.The complicating factor in estimating losses is that, as with manynatural disasters, the extent of damage won't be known for days,weeks or even months.

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