MIAMI – The Atlantic hurricane season may be still running a bit behind schedule when it comes to the number of their namesake storms, but what the season has lacked so far in quantity it has made up for in quality, and is about to pull off a feat not seen in 90 years.

Hurricane Humberto, swirling over 450 miles off the northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, is set to intensify into a major hurricane (Category 3+ on the Saffir-Simpson scale) over the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Once it does so, it will join the other two hurricanes so far this season – Erin and Gabrielle – in reaching major hurricane status. It would then become the first time since 1935 that the first three hurricanes of an Atlantic season reached such powerful intensity, according to Colora

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