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4 major hurricanes are predicted as part of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
Read full article: 4 major hurricanes are predicted as part of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season(CNN) -- Sixteen named storms, including eight hurricanes, are forecast for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, according to early predictions released Thursday by experts at Colorado State University. "Two of the last three years have had major hurricane landfalls in the US (2017 and 2018)," Miller said. "Before that, there was a 12-year drought without a single major hurricane landfall anywhere in the country (from Hurricane Wilma in 2005 to Hurricane Harvey in 2017)." "The last major hurricane to strike the US was Hurricane Michael in 2018," he said. April is about the earliest experts can get a good indication of what conditions will be like during the hurricane season.