Back in late March, the private meteorology company AccuWeather made its 2020 Atlantic basin hurricane forecast, and in early April the folks at the Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project added their predictions. Both said we are in for an above-average season.

AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski called for 14 to 18 named storms, seven to nine of which would become hurricanes with winds of 74 miles per hour or more, with two to four reaching major, Category 3 or above,…