6月3日CNN聽力：2016大泰西颶風季開端NOAA猜測將天生10至16個颶風 美國中西部遭受500年罕有大水打擊
Across the Pacific Ocean, Southeast China is wherewe're starting today's call of the roll.
In the city of Foshan, thank you for watching fromNanhai Senior High School.
To the U.S. state of West Virginia, we've got someVikings there.
Petersburg High School is in the city of Petersburg.
And watch out for the Hornets.
They're making a buzz in Charlotte, North Carolina, where you'll find Albemarle Road MiddleSchool.
The term "500-year flood event" basically means there's a rare 1-in-500 chance that aparticular flood would hit in a given year.
Southeast Texas has seen two of these 500-year flood events in two months, what a CNNmeteorologist described as very bad luck.
Last week, there were record-setting rains in the region.
At one point, the city of Brenham got 19 inches of rain in 48 hours.
It stopped falling last Friday night, but not before swelling flood waters that killed six people,some of whom were trapped in cars and high water.
The National Weather Service has given several warnings, telling people not to drive throughflooded areas and to be careful need riverbanks.
Hundreds of homes have been flooded or swept away.
Another storm is in the forecast for later this week.
Today is the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
It runs from June 1st through November 30th, though forecasters say that these storms canform at any time.
This is just when they're more likely.
Predicting how many storms will form in a given season is not an exact science and predictionsare often inaccurate.
But they give coastal residents, emergency workers and insurance companies an idea of whatto look out for.
NOAA has just released their numbers for the upcoming hurricane season.
Their predictions on how active this season will be and they've actually predicted a very normalseason, 10 to 16 named storms, four to eight hurricanes, and one to four major storms.
It's pretty much all in line with what the other agencies are saying, 12 to 14 named storms.
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