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cnn news 2012-05-28

CARL AZUZ, HOST, cnn STUDENT NEWS: Fridays are awesome. So is that iReport from Mr. Delaney and the Spanish River Sharks. Very well done, y`all. I`m Carl Azuz. Let`s go ahead and get started.

First up, we`re looking at the second tropical storm to get a name so far this year. This is the second named storm in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Pacific hurricane season starts a couple works before the Atlantic season, and there are different sets of names for storms in the two oceans.

AZUZ (voice-over): This is Hurricane Bud. As of Thursday, it was a category 2 hurricane off the cost of Mexico. Experts following its path don`t predict Bud to make landfall, but they did warn that rain from the storm could lead to floods or mudslides.

AZUZ: Now we mentioned the different lists of names, but the type of storm we`re talking about is actually called different things in different parts of the world.

AZUZ (voice-over): For instance, in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, these are called hurricanes. You knew that. But if you travel up to the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean -- so up near Japan and Russia, the storms are called typhoons. And then if you go down into the Indian Ocean, the name changes to cyclones. So you have three names, all the same type of storm.

AZUZ: These storms can be affected by something called El Nino. It`s a weather event that involves unusually warm ocean temperatures. Chad Myers breaks down the forecast for this year`s Atlantic hurricane seasons, which starts a week from today, and he explains the impact that El Nino could have.

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It is going to be a below-normal or above-normal season. Pick one. So here you go. A normal average year, 11. Now there`s a new forecast out, just at 11 o`clock, somewhere between nine, which would be below normal, or 15 named storms, which would be above normal.

Hurricanes, six is the average. It could be four, below normal, or eight, above normal. And major hurricanes, two, it could be one, below normal, or three, above normal. Why? Because El Nino could get in the way.

If El Nino really builds off the coast, the west coast of South America, Mexico and even kind of runs up toward the U.S., but really, it`s South America, that would ruin the season, which means it would hamper the storms, and we would have all those lower numbers. If El Nino does not form, we could still be above normal. Remember, it -- all these numbers are just an estimate.