NU Online News Service, May 30, 12:14 p.m. EDT

Despite the appearance of two pre-season tropical storms there is no change in the Atlantic hurricane forecast, which calls for an average year of storms, says one catastrophe modeler.

With the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season set to begin June 1, catastrophe modeler RMS released its pre-season commentary, saying conditions remain right for the total number of tropical storms “to be near the long-term average of 10.7 tropical storms.”

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