host: the last question for gerry bell.ke to comment on the way the government plays with the weather throughout the centuries. we use silver iodide to see the clouds in vietnam. to harp.com, you can catch the russians playing with the weather. this is about insurance companies being under-funded. this is about the mass starvation coming in 20 or 30 years. host: we have the point. for thatl, answer caller. guest: there have been attempts to modify the weather and they have all failed. the weather patterns are huge. are huge areas of air. what modifies them are tropical rainfall patterns on continents, the seasons. that is what controls the jet stream patterns. what we do is utterly negligible on the scale. , 13- 2013 hurricane season 19 main storms. be majoruld hurricanes. being our, thanks for guest. two more segments. cohen will be coming up and we will be talking about her on love in black and white. that is what we have coming up thishe "washington journal" morning. we will be right back. m&aayor adrian fenty councilmen

host: gerry bell is our guest from noaa. dr. ll, you recently came out with your hurricane season outlook. what if the season going to be? guest: we updated the 2013 hurricane season outlook just yesterday. it is really reiterating what we had predicted in may. we still expect an active season with the possibility the season to be very active. for the season as a whole, we are predicting 13 to 19 main storms, six to nine to be hurricanes, and three to five to be major storms. that is a lot of activity still to come. that is by far were the major hurricanes occur. we so have a lot of way to go with this hurricane season. host: what is the peak? guest: august, september, october. you might say mid august to mid- october. throughout this entire three- month period is when by far the bulk of the major hurricanes occur. host: the "hartford courant" this morning -- weather service packs off a bit from production. what are they talking about here? guest: we lowered our upward bound of major hurricane slightly for the northeast. this is