(CNN) -- Missed it by that much! In a year that forecasters said there would be a few more hurricanes than normal, Humberto on Wednesday fell just a few hours short of setting a record for the latest first hurricane to form in the Atlantic Ocean. Normally, three hurricanes would have formed in the area by this time in hurricane season. All that it had to do was wait until after 8 a.m. ET, but alas, no. Three hours ahead of that mark, the National Hurricane Center in Miami dubbed it a legitimate storm with sustained winds of a 75 mph, the threshold for a hurricane.
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2013 was almost a record-setter for latest first hurricane formation
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Humberto formed in the far eastern Atlantic early Wednesday
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Forecasters predict an above-average year for Atlantic storms
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Hurricane season ends on November 30
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