Active hurricane season still expected

? Government forecasters slightly reduced their tropical predictions on Thursday yet still call for a highly active season with 14 to 20 named storms, including eight to 12 hurricanes.

With the busiest stretch upcoming, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts four to six of the hurricanes will be major with sustained winds greater than 110 mph.

“The key message is that we can expect well above normal activity for the rest of the season,” said Gerry Bell, NOAA’s lead hurricane forecaster.

Meanwhile, the Tropical Storm Colin was resurrected on Thursday and was expected to either brush or directly hit Bermuda on Saturday. Then it was expected to curve out to sea without growing into a hurricane. The system briefly grew to tropical storm status on Tuesday and disintegrated into an open wave.

NOAA reduced its forecast a notch because it had expected more storms to pop up in June and July, Bell said.