Here's the good news, if you can call it that: This year's hurricane season isn't going to be as bad as 2005, when Hurricane Katrina wiped out New Orleans.
But a leading U.S. hurricane prognosticator is predicting a "very active" hurricane season this year in the Atlantic basin, setting the odds of a major storm hitting the U.S. coast at 74 percent.
But as the website LiveScience.com points out, expectations for a nasty season were also high last year, leading meteorologists to describe the mild months of June through November as a "flop."
LiveScience also has a guide to hurricane predictions here.
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