2010 Huricane Soothsayers ...

The Tropical Meteorology Project at the Colorado State University predicts that the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be "above-average" and produce eight hurricanes, four of them major. MORE INFO

Another forecaster, AccuWeather sees a potentially "extreme" hurricane season this year with five hurricanes, two or three of them major, expected to strike the U.S. coast, forming out of an expected 16 to 18 tropical storms, almost all of them in the western Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico. MORE INFO

The NOAA National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center's projection is usually released in late May, before the start of the "official" hurricane season, June 1 - Nov 30th. MORE INFO