[Music] all right let's talk traffics for a moment when it comes to this hurricane season it's now expected to be even more of a record breaking than it recordbreaker than it was just last week yeah in the wake of barrel the earliest Category 5 hurricane in history Colorado State University is now revising its hurricane forecast storm TR 15 meteorologist Michael Crowley answers the good question is Barrel just a sign of worse things to come [Music] our hurricane season is now well underway as we had already have three named storms before the month of July of this year's hurricane season one of them was Hurricane Barrel major hurricane Barrel reaching Category 5 status the earliest Category 5 in history and with that Colorado State University has now released a new forecast which updates their already record-breaking forecast so their earlier one was 23 Nam storms 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes with with the new update 25 name storms are now expected 12 hurricanes and six major hurricanes comparing this to the average we could be looking at double the amount of major hurricanes and almost double the amount of name storms for this year's hurricane season and if you take a look at what they actually do think about their forecast they're very confident in this new forecast 57% chance of major hurricane landfalls in the US and a 37% chance of it making landfall in the Gulf Coast and this if this does happen to come true this will be completely done with all of this list so right now we have Alberto barl and Chris forming we have all of these names to go through for this year and if this forecast pans out we'll be completely done with this list and we'll have to go to the next list which is the supplemental names list this is what happens instead of the Greek alphabet if we exhaust all the names in our list we will be dipping into this and if that forecast does come true we will be well into this list we have a very active hurricane season ahead of us according to many many different forecasting agencies and this is just a sign of things to come now if you have a good question of your own that you want to see answered here on news5 scan this QR code that you're seeing on your screen right now that'll send you over to my email M Crowley Kad adn.com I'll answer all the good questions that you have for me right here on news5 I'm St TR 15 and meteorologist Michael Crowley I can't wait to hear those good questions