Even though we at Tropicalweather.net don't get into long term hurricane predictions, the public is still quite interested in how the hurricane season may shape up. Colorado State University's Dr. Bill Gray and Dr. Phil Klotzbach have put out an early prediction of 11-16 named storms of which 6-10 may become hurricanes and of those, 5 may become a major hurricane.

Just to get our bearings, in a "typical" hurricane season the long term average suggests 10 named storms with 6 becoming hurricanes and of those about 2-3 becoming major.
Remember, it's possible to have an active hurricane season and not have any landfalls in the U.S. The odds do go up as the number of hurricanes increase though. Dr. Peter Ray from my Alma Mater Florida State University is looking for a similar more quite year. El nino coupled with a lack of a warm pool is his reasoning.