text:  You know, forecasters are expecting an unusually high number of hurricanes this year. So what, if anything, can people do to prepare? Yeah, we're expecting a really active season. In part, that's because of those really warm temperatures we talked about. And we've seen that these storms can grow really fast. So experts, warm people need to take plans ahead of time. Jennifer Collins is a professor at the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida. She says the time to prepare is before the storm, not after hurricanes announced.