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TALKING ABOUT HURRICANE SEASON. YOU’VE GOT SOME NEW DETAILS TO TELL US ABOUT. THAT’S RIGHT. AND I MEAN LAST YEAR WAS A PRETTY ACTIVE HURRICANE SEASON ITSELF. WE HAD HURRICANE MOULTON, DEBBY AND HELENE ALL MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE FLORIDA COASTLINE. KILLEEN MADE ITS WAY THROUGH GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS, BRINGING SOME SIGNIFICANT FLOODING THERE. FRANCINE MADE LANDFALL IN LOUISIANA, IMPACTING PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI. AND THEN BERYL CAME THROUGH BREAKING RECORDS, MAKING LANDFALL IN TEXAS, AND BRINGING MULTIPLE TORNADO OUTBREAKS FOR MUCH OF THE UNITED STATES. BUT THAT WAS LAST YEAR. OVERALL, WE DID SEE 18 NAMED STORMS, 11 OF THOSE BEING HURRICANES AND FIVE OF THOSE BEING MAJOR HURRICANES. BUT THAT WAS AN ABOVE AVERAGE YEAR. AND THIS IS THE LATEST UPDATE FROM THE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS. THEY PUT OUT A FORECAST AS WELL. AND FOR THIS YEAR, THEY’RE FORECASTING 17 NAMED STORMS, NINE OF THOSE BEING HURRICANES AND FOUR OF THOSE BEING MAJOR HURRICANES. WHILE THIS NUMBER IS GREATER THAN THIS NUMBER, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS, IS STILL AN ABOVE AVERAGE SEASON. BETWEEN 1990 AND 2020, WE SAW 14 NAMED STORMS ON AVERAGE, SEVEN OF THOSE BEING HURRICANES AND THREE OF THOSE BEING MAJOR HURRICANES. SO HERE’S A LOOK AT THE NAMES THAT WE’LL SEE OFTEN THIS TIME AS WE WORK OUR WAY INTO THE SEASON THAT STARTS IN JUNE. ANDREA BARRY, CHANTAL DEXTER, THESE ARE THE NAMES THAT YOU’LL BE SEEING OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS ROTATING LIST THAT WE SAW SIX YEARS AGO IS THE NAME DEXTER, WHICH REPLACES DORIAN. THAT MADE SOME CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE TO THE BAHAMAS AREA. BUT THIS IS A LIST. SO IF YOU HEAR THESE NAMES OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, JUST KEEP AN EYE OUT. WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. AS ALWAYS. BRITTANY. THANK YO