Barry, Chantal, Dorian and Erin will be names appearing in the news as hurricane season 2019 has officially started. If NOAA predictions are correct, we won’t make it all the way down the list to Sebastien, Tanya, Van and Wendy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a near-normal hurricane season with 9 to 15 named storms coming from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.