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St. Pete Fire Rescue is making it easy for local residents to know how to prepare for a hurricane as hurricane season approaches. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/gguy44)
ST. PETERSBURG, FL St. Petersburg residents will get a free hurricane preparedness kit at the upcoming Drive-Thru Hurricane Expo at a local recreation center.
St. Pete Fire Rescue and Pinellas County Emergency Management will give free kits to the first 500 cars that show up to the expo May 22. The kit includes information and supplies that have been donated by community organizations.
Hurricane season begins June 1 to Nov. 30. The World Meteorological Organization s Hurricane Committee recently released this season s names of hurricanes. This year s list of names, last used in 2015, includes two new names Elsa and Julian after two tropical storms, Erika and Joaquin, caused so much damage in 2015 that their names were removed by the organization, the Miami Patch reported.
Experts forecast another busy hurricane season
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Forecasters expect another overactive hurricane season with 17 named storms
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After last year s record-breaking hurricane season, forecasters are expecting another overactive season.
Colorado State University (CSU) released its 2021 Atlantic hurricane season forecast on Thursday morning and is predicting another above-average season this year.
CSU is calling for 17 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). Each of these numbers is above the typical season average of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.
However, seasonal averages are in the process of being updated, according to Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center (NHC). We will have those new averages going into the season. In fact, over the next couple of weeks we are going to release that information, Graham says.