Nine days before today’s start of the hurricane season, subtropical storm Ana became its first named storm.For the seventh straight year, the Atlantic Hurricane season has begun to churn out cyclones ahead of the official June 1 date.The system was the first of what hurricane forecasters, including the respected Colorado State University, predict will be an “above-normal” season. Over the next six months, we can expect 17 named storms and eight hurricanes, with four of those predicted to be major storms.Early storms are increasingly becoming the norm, so much so that the National Hurricane Center said it would start issuing its weather updates from mid-May rather than June 1.
