Bring on the hurricanes

This could be a fairly busy year for hurricanes, according to the experts.

Eight hurricanes are expected along with over a dozen tropical storms. Haiti, in particular, could be in for a rough season, the forecasters at Colorado State University said today. The report describes the coming season as “above average.”

Last year, the, the forecasters predicted 6 hurricanes and a dozen tropical storms, in what turned out to be a very quiet year for hurricanes. There were only nine tropical storms and three hurricanes.

Here are this year’s names:

Alex

Bonnie

Colin

Danielle

Earl

Fiona

Gaston

Hermine

Igor

Julia

Karl

Lisa

Matthew

Nicole

Otto

Paula

Richard

Shary

Tomas

Virginie

Walter