NOAA joins warning of active hurricane season

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
joined other forecasters in projecting a more active US hurricane
season this year in its updated August outlook, as the second
hurricane of 2017 emerged.
Tropical Storm Gert has strengthened to a hurricane overnight
(14 August) and is expected to cause rough seas on the east coast
of the US but is not forecast to make landfall, according to the US
National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The NHC predicts the storm will move northeast...