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Byline: Martin Merzer
MIAMI _ Hurricane season is still two months away, but the first hint of potentially stormy news arrived Friday: We may have to deal with another unusually active year.
Private forecaster William Gray is predicting 13 tropical storms that grow into seven hurricanes, three of them intense. Those numbers are higher than the long-term average, but _ thankfully _ lower than the number of storms that developed last year.
"All of the information we have collected and analyzed through March indicates that the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season will be an active one," said Gray, a professor at Colorado State University whose forecasts…