It’s the opening week of the 183-day Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. The good news right off the bat: no development is expected for the first full week of the season.

Government forecasters issued their first outlook for the upcoming 2025 hurricane season on Thursday.

With warmer-than-normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic.

Microsoft has pledged to fight any U.S. government order to halt data center operations in Europe, as it sought to soothe concerns among European customers that trans-Atlantic tensions would lead to service disruptions.

On Thursday, the pioneers of seasonal hurricane forecasts released their first predictions of what the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season could hold.

The Disney Cruise Line announced several sailings in October and November were canceled over a ship that needs maintenance.

The East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing rainy, windy and potentially dangerous stretch of weather.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close Saturday, bringing an end to a season that saw 11 hurricanes compared to the average seven, billions of dollars in damage and deaths and destruction hundreds of miles from where storms came ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Tropical Storm Rafael formed on Monday in the Caribbean – the 17th named storm of the busy 2024 Atlantic hurricane season – and is on track to impact the Cayman Islands on Tuesday and parts of western Cuba on Wednesday as a hurricane.

A hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning for Jamaica have been issued as a weather system in the Caribbean is expected to strengthen.

The next storm in the Atlantic is likely to spin up over the weekend or early next week out of the Central American Gyre, or CAG, the semi-permanent, sprawling area of spin that straddles the land areas separating the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea on the Atlantic side -- the same feature responsible for so many of our devastating hurricanes in 2024 -- including the likes of Milton and Helene.

Since official Atlantic tropical cyclone recordkeeping began some 174 years ago, nearly 600 tropical storms or hurricanes have struck the mainland U.S. shoreline during all months of the year, except for January, March, April and December. Of those landfalling storms, only about a dozen struck during the month of November.

After taking a slow, horseshoe-shaped dip across eastern Cuba over the past 36 hours and dumping over a foot of heavy rain – causing pockets of significant flooding – poorly-organized Oscar is picking up the pace and accelerating through the southeastern Bahamas and toward the western Atlantic.

Since Milton’s demise, we’ve seen no active tropical systems anywhere in the Atlantic, the longest stretch of inactivity in a month and before the historic run of late-season activity that included 6 named storms, of which 5 became hurricanes and 3 of those Category 3 or stronger, capped off by Category 5 Milton, the most intense hurricane in nearly two decades.

Back at the beginning of October, we discussed what we anticipated to be a formal transition to dry season across South Florida around the middle of the month. As we detailed, the eagerly-awaited switch from South Florida’s rainy season to dry season isn’t only a boon for us in South Florida but an important milestone for all Americans living at the head of hurricane alley.

After its most active start to October on record and following a spate of 5 hurricanes – including 3 major hurricanes – in less than 2 weeks, the Atlantic is throttling back to a more reasonable pace for middle October.

National Hurricane Center meteorologists in Miami reported Sunday afternoon that a well-defined area of low pressure could become the next tropical depression in the Atlantic.

More moving showers and thunderstorms present a marginal flood threat Sunday in South Florida.

Back around the traditional ramp up to the hurricane season peak in early September, lots was written about the hurricane season “bust” – alluding to what forecasters predicted to be one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record.

Explosively intensifying Hurricane Milton is the latest freaky system to come out of what veteran hurricane scientists call the weirdest storm season of their lives.

South Florida will endure showers and thunderstorms this weekend and through the middle of next week. The National Hurricane Center tracked two hurricanes in the Atlantic and possibly a third hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

For those following the twists and turns of the topsy turvy hurricane season, you know that this season has been anything but business-as-usual.

We continue to monitor a disturbance lifting northward from the western Caribbean for possible development over the Gulf of Mexico by this weekend.

Another tropical system could form later this week over the northwestern Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico – in the vicinity of where Helene formed last week – and move toward the Gulf Coast for next weekend or early next week.

A slow-motion catastrophe has been playing out in the coastal North Carolina village of Rodanthe.

On the one hand, the hurricane season is on track to notably underdeliver on hyperactive seasonal forecasts – measured by overall tropical activity, not storm impacts – predicted by virtually all of the two dozen or so groups that issue such long-term forecasts, including NOAA, the parent agency of the National Weather Service.

Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast.

The National Weather Service says a tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane.

As we’ve discussed in recent newsletters, the tropical struggles across the Atlantic only days removed from the hurricane season peak – especially in a season forecast to bring exceptional activity – feel more unusual with each passing day.

Fall officially arrived this month – at least the fall most important to meteorologists (astronomical fall begins later this month) – and although South Floridians still have to wait another month before feeling some relief, the hottest months of the year are at least behind us.

The theme of the past few weeks continues across the Atlantic with several systems struggling to gain footing as dry and sinking air quickly squashes organized storminess.

It’s been an unusually quiet stretch during what is traditionally one of the busier parts of the hurricane season.

Despite several disturbances peppering the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico to Africa this Labor Day – a traditionally active turn in the hurricane season – none show any immediate signs of development.

A disturbance currently located over the central Atlantic is forecast to slowly develop as it moves westward toward the easternmost Caribbean islands to start next week.

Two Atlantic systems that we spotlighted in Wednesday’s newsletter are gaining support for development next week as forecast models trend toward an active start to September.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen any new candidates for development in the Atlantic, but this morning the National Hurricane Center is highlighting two areas.

If you follow our daily reading of the tea leaves, you know this time of year we don’t get many lucky breaks. We’ve been given a bonus cup of calm this week, but as we previewed in last Tuesday’s newsletter, things will begin to pick up again by this weekend as the calendar turns to September.

We don’t want to be the ones to tempt fate, or to jinx a good thing, but forecast models continue to advertise another strangely stormless week in the Atlantic, which could get us into early September without another tropical system.

We hit the ground running this hurricane season earlier than usual – with the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record and already two U.S. hurricane landfalls and one direct hurricane strike on Bermuda. Even if no other tropical systems form in the Atlantic for the next two weeks, we’ll still be running ahead of schedule for the year.

We all know how important warm waters are to hurricanes. The heat of the ocean is the power source of hurricanes and water temperature across the tropical Atlantic is the single biggest predictor of how active the hurricane season will be, especially by August when they explain a whopping 66% of the year-to-year difference in seasonal hurricane activity.

The large 100-mile-wide eye of Category 2 Hurricane Ernesto enveloped Bermuda around daybreak Saturday, bringing wind gusts as high as 109 mph to the archipelago and knocking out power to 75% of the island at its height.

Hurricane Ernesto has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda over open waters of the Atlantic after crossing over the tiny British territory early in the day with heavy rains and strong winds.

Ernesto continued to strengthen on Thursday morning as it churned northward into the Atlantic about 250 miles northeast of the Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas.

The center of Tropical Storm Ernesto passed over the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico late Tuesday, bringing rounds of torrential rainfall to the U.S. territories that continued into Wednesday morning.

Tropical Storm Ernesto is bringing gusty winds above 45 mph to the Leeward Islands this morning as conditions quickly deteriorate across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Leeward Islands north of Dominica westward to Anguilla for the expectation of tropical storm conditions (winds of 39 mph or stronger) in the next 36 hours.

Federal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina.

A depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. It was the fourth named storm of this Atlantic hurricane season.

The mostly “dry” tropical disturbance moving through the Atlantic that we first brought to your attention in this newsletter a week ago is slowly gathering storminess as it moves through the islands of the northeastern Caribbean this morning.

Beginning last Wednesday we began previewing the possibility of development of a tropical disturbance nearing the Caribbean islands for this week and in Friday morning’s newsletter we discussed a more conducive configuration for development once the disturbance moves into the western Atlantic later this week.

It’s been a nice dry spell these past few weeks in the Atlantic – dry being the operative word with round after round of storm-suffocating dust that’s helped put the lid on tropical development.

If it seems like we’ve been talking a lot about Saharan dust this July, it’s because we have. So far the tropical Atlantic has seen higher dust concentrations than any July in the continuous satellite record (since 2002) with the exception of July 2018.

A wave of Saharan dust from northern Africa was moving over South Florida Saturday and heading northwest.

In the modern hurricane record – since satellites came around in the 1960s – most Julys observe at least one named storm, but about 1 in 3 Julys come and go without any new named storms. Additionally, most Julys – nearly 70% – pass by without any new hurricane formations.

It’s been 9 days since the last active tropical system in the Atlantic and 18 days since the last named storm – Tropical Storm Chris – formed. Of course, by the first week of July, the Atlantic managed to notch its most active start to a hurricane season on record – courtesy of long-lived, Category 5 Hurricane Beryl – and activity through July 18th is more like what we’d expect through the end of August.

July is an important transition month for the hurricane season. It’s the month we begin to look farther out into the open Atlantic as more storms form east of the Caribbean than during June.

It’s only been a week since Hurricane Beryl slammed the Texas coast, knocking out power to over 2 million customers – most notably in the Houston area – for days on end, leaving Texans basting under the stifling summer heat.

The tropical Atlantic is in the midst of its most significant outbreak of Saharan dust in over two years.

After an abrupt cooling of waters this spring in the eastern Pacific – heralding the demise of one of the strongest El Niño events on record – surface waters across the eastern Pacific have plateaued over the past month, begging the question whether La Niña will surface in full before the peak of the hurricane season.

Beryl – the record-setting hurricane that struck Texas Monday – is likely a harbinger of a hyperactive season, according to updated hurricane season predictions issued Tuesday from experts at Colorado State University.

After an over 5,000-mile journey through the Atlantic, the disturbance we began discussing in this newsletter 14 days ago, before it even rolled off Africa, which grew into the strongest June hurricane and earliest Category 5 on record, made its final landing near Matagorda, about 90 miles southwest of Galveston, on the middle Texas coast as an 80 mph Category 1 hurricane before daybreak Monday.

Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead.

Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to Category 5 status as it crosses islands in the southeastern Caribbean.

Beryl strengthened into a new Category hurricane on Saturday afternoon and is forecast to strengthen into a Category 3.

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Beryl has grown into a hurricane in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen into a major storm as it nears the Caribbean.

The strong disturbance labeled Invest 95L churning westward through the eastern Atlantic continued to organize overnight and is expected to become a tropical depression or storm later today or on Saturday. The next name on the list is Beryl.

A strong tropical disturbance over the eastern Atlantic – designated Invest 95L by the National Hurricane Center – is poised to organize into the first significant storm of the young hurricane season as it churns toward the easternmost Caribbean islands for early next week.

So far the Atlantic hurricane season hasn’t thrown us any curveballs. It’s been business-as-usual for June with lots of rich tropical air getting pulled out of the Caribbean, one named tropical storm (Alberto) that formed almost to the day we’d expect our first named storm, and two close-call tropical depressions that just couldn’t make it the extra mile.

The large and lumbering circulation of the tropical disturbance formerly designated Potential Tropical Cyclone One has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Typically over the past 50 years, the first named storm in the Atlantic has formed around this time in June. It’s no surprise then that the first bona fide attempt at tropical development looks to be next week in the southern Gulf of Mexico.

U.S. stocks hung around their record levels as Wall Street remained relatively quiet following another slide in Europe.

Experts at Colorado State University (CSU) – the pioneers of seasonal hurricane forecasts – issued their June update to their 2024 hurricane season outlook on Thursday. The forecast team continues to predict an extremely active hurricane season in the months ahead with 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and 5 Category 3 or stronger hurricanes.

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever.

Although tropical storms and hurricanes can impact any state along the Gulf Coast or southeast U.S. in June, two states especially stand out. T

Each year, more than a hundred million tons of mineral dust from the world’s largest hot desert are heaved across the Atlantic, often blowing through the Caribbean to the shores of South Florida, stifling our afternoon thunderstorms and making for hazy days and brilliant sunsets.

After all the pre-season hype, it’s only fitting that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is on track to see the latest start of any year since at least 2014.

On Thursday, government forecasters – including senior forecasters from the National Hurricane Center – issued their highest predictions headed into a hurricane season since federal hurricane outlooks began in 1999.

The Local 10 News Weather Authority’s special Staying Storm Safe In Hot Water looks ahead to the Atlantic hurricane season starting June 1.

On Thursday, government forecasters – including senior forecasters from the National Hurricane Center – issued their highest predictions headed into a hurricane season since federal hurricane outlooks began in 1999.

Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.

Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history.

Forecasters at Colorado State University – the group to pioneer seasonal hurricane forecasting in the early 1980s – issued its first outlook for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season on Thursday. Their outlook calls for an “extremely active” hurricane season in 2024, with 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and five hurricanes to reach Category 3, 4, or 5 status, with winds of 111 mph or stronger.

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Emergency services in Spain say four people have died in three separate incidents on Spain’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines after falling into the sea.

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Today marks the official end of the 2023 hurricane season, an active year with over half the season occupied by named storms – the fifth highest coverage in 50 years – but with just one U.S. hurricane landfall and two U.S. landfalling tropical storms.

With the Caribbean clearing out in the wake of stormy Invest 97L last week, it appears the tropical Atlantic is headed on hiatus, or perhaps even into hibernation until next hurricane season.

Despite upper-level winds turning more conducive to development since yesterday, so far the disturbance known as 97L has been unable to muster up much in the way of organized storminess.

Hurricane Tammy has merged with a nearby cold front over the open Atlantic east of Bermuda, shedding its strong central thunderstorms but maintaining hurricane-strength winds.

After skirting the Lesser Antilles of the eastern Caribbean over the weekend – passing over Barbuda as an 85 mph Category 1 hurricane late Saturday upon exiting the islands – Tammy continues to pull away to the north, maintaining its hurricane status over the western Atlantic.

Tammy – now a 65 mph tropical storm – appears to be gradually strengthening and is forecast to become a hurricane before reaching the northeastern Caribbean islands on Saturday.

A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic in just 24 hours.

Invest 94L – the disturbance that first rolled off Africa 8 days ago – was upgraded to Tropical Storm Tammy on Wednesday afternoon, becoming the 20th named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

A healthy disturbance moving through the central Atlantic – known as Invest 94L – has gradually organized since Tuesday and is on the verge of becoming the 20th tropical depression of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

Although the tropical disturbance west of Africa – designated Invest 94L – looks less together than a pan of scrambled eggs today, the environment ahead gives good reason not to overlook it as trade winds sweep it westward toward the islands for next week.

Historically, by this point in the hurricane season, roughly 85% of named storms have already formed in the Atlantic. This means that in a typical year, we would still expect two more named storms before the end of November, with one of those named storms strengthening into a hurricane.

The extra warmth across the deep tropical Atlantic – the warmest waters on record for the time of year – have extended the Cabo Verde part of the hurricane season into extra innings.

An area of low pressure in the southern Gulf of Mexico associated with a washed-out cold front will lift northward today and accelerate northeastward on Wednesday and early Thursday toward the northern Gulf Coast.