NOAA hurricane forecast alarming - USATODAY.com

NOAA hurricane forecast alarming - USATODAY.com: "The hurricane forecast this year is the most ominous the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has ever issued — 'an active to extremely active' season:

• 14 to 23 storms big enough to be named.


• Eight to 14 hurricanes — storms with winds of 74 mph or greater.


• Three to seven major hurricanes — those with winds exceeding 111 mph.


That is the most named storms NOAA has forecast since it began issuing the outlook in 1998. Only 2005 had more actual named storms: 28, including 15 hurricanes. One of them was Katrina."