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Feds say 2016 hurricane season in Pacific will be average

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2015, file photo, Andy Penn, of Hilo, watches as a large wave crashes off a sea wall on Hilo Bay in Hilo, Hawaii as Hurricane Ignacio moved past the Hawaiian Islands. Federal forecasters at the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu are releasing the hurricane forecast for the 2016 season at news conference on Thursday, May 26, 2016. The regional hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

HONOLULU – After a record-setting hurricane season fueled by El Nino in 2015, federal forecasters say the 2016 Pacific hurricane season will likely be only slightly above average as La Nina conditions take over.

Officials with the National Weather Service’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center said Thursday there is about a 40 per cent chance the season will be above normal, a 40 per cent chance it will be normal and a 20 per cent chance it will be below normal. They predict from four to seven tropical cyclones will form this season.

The 2015 season was the most active on record, with 15 storms forming.

The season runs from June 1 to November 30.

Forecasters also said the 2015-2016 wet season in Hawaii was the fifth driest in the past 30 years.

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