TSR predicts active 2011 hurricane season

Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) is sticking with its April 2011 tropical storm forecast, which predicts an active hurricane season in 2011, with hurricane activity this year to be about 25% above the long-term (1950-2010) norm.
TSR’s forecast for the 2011 hurricane season, which starts on June 1 and ends Nov. 1, predicts 14 tropical storms. Between seven and eight of these storms will be hurricanes, and between three and four will be intense hurricanes (Category 3-5), the tropical storm forecaster predicts.
TSR said there is a moderate (55%) probability that the 2011 Atlantic hurricane could be in the top one-third of years historically.
TSR does not forecast the number of intense hurricanes that might make U.S. landfall.