July is a transition month in the Atlantic when we begin to look a little deeper into the basin and closer to Africa for hurricane seedlings.

July is a transition month in the Atlantic when we begin to look a little deeper into the basin and closer to Africa for hurricane seedlings.

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

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears.

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.

It’s been an unusually quiet stretch during what is traditionally one of the busier parts 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 hitting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and downgrading to a tropical storm, Beryl is expected to once again become a hurricane as it hurtles towards southern Texas by Sunday evening.

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.

Tropical Storm Danielle formed Thursday in the Atlantic and is expected to become the first hurricane of an unusually quiet storm season.

The Atlantic hurricane season has been oddly quiet.

Federal meteorologists say this hurricane season may not be quite as busy as they initially thought, but it should still be more active than normal.

An intense nor’easter – a northern coastal storm with most of its impactful winds coming from the northeast – will slowly pull away from the New England coast today. Winds gusted over 90 mph on Cape Cod overnight and are still high across southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, New York.

The National Hurricane Center is making note of a broad area of disturbed weather over the southern Bahamas.

The National Hurricane Center designates September 10 as the official peak of hurricane season – the day when we are most likely to have a named storm. Today’s date is based on a rolling average of 100 years of storm – plus or minus.

What’s left of Elsa has evolved into a North Atlantic disturbance and will be swept away by the northern jet stream.

Learn how the hurricane season forecast is made, and the factors in the atmosphere and ocean that make a season busy or calm. Will the activity be above normal again?

Predictions for the 2021 hurricane season are close to what the forecasts were for 2020, but that doesn't mean this year will have the same activity.

(NOAA via AP)With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering hurricane season. AdMeanwhile, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is recalculating just what constitutes an average hurricane season. STARTING EARLIERMIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel said “this whole idea of hurricane season should be revisited." So a warming world means the new normal is busy hurricane seasons just like the last 30 years.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A record-setting Atlantic hurricane season that saw the highest number of named storms officially came to a close Monday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season set multiple records while producing a record 30 named storms. NOAA said an average season has 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three become major hurricanes. The prior record for named storms hitting Louisiana in a single hurricane season is 4 set in 2002,” Klotzbach said. NOAA said this was the fifth consecutive year with an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with 18 above-normal seasons out of the past 26.

Tropical Storm Eta is parked off the western coast of Cuba, dumping rain. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Theta — which formed overnight and broke a record as the 29th named Atlantic storm of the season — is chugging east toward Europe on the cusp of hurricane status. The system now has a 70% chance of becoming the 30th named storm. Never before have three named storms been twirling at the same time this late in the year, Klotzbach said. The overall message is that everyone in the area should pay attention to Eta, Brennan said.

MIAMI – Newly formed Tropical Storm Zeta gradually strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and forecasters said it would likely become a hurricane before hitting Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast in coming days. Zeta was the earliest named 27th Atlantic storm recorded in an already historic hurricane season. The system was centered about 260 miles (420 kilometers) southeast of Cozumel island late Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The government is still handing out aid, including sheet roofing, to Yucatan residents hit by Hurricane Delta and Tropical Storm Gamma earlier this month. The hurricane center said it could make landfall anywhere from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

Forecasters said Beta was not expected to bring the same amount of rainfall that Texas experienced during either Hurricane Harvey in 2017 or Tropical Storm Imelda last year. The first rain bands from Beta reached the Texas coast on Sunday, but the heaviest rain wasn't expected to arrive until Monday into Tuesday. If the system makes landfall in Texas, it would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. in 2020. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Bermuda. Wilfred, which had been a tropical storm, weakened to a tropical depression earlier Sunday.

MIAMI – Subtropical Storm Alpha formed Friday far east in the Atlantic. It is only the second time the Hurricane Center has had to use the Greek alphabet after running out of its traditional storm names. The only time they had done this before was in the deadly 2005 hurricane season, during which Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Alpha came just hours after Tropical Storm Wilfred formed in the eastern Atlantic, using the last of the traditional names for tropical systems. Slight strengthening was possible during the day but weakening should start over the weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

The Atlantic is increasingly spawning more major hurricanes, according to an Associated Press analysis of NOAA hurricane data since 1950. The Atlantic now averages three major hurricanes a year, based on a 30-year running average. A study by Kossin found that, once a storm formed, the chances of its attaining major storm status globally increased by 8% a decade since 1979. Such a busy period started in 1995 and might end soon as northern Atlantic waters shift to a cooler regime, he said. In addition, he said: Climate change will be a bigger driver of losses in the future.___Follow Seth Borenstein on Twitter at www.twitter.com/borenbears.

CABO SAN LUCAS – Two newly formed tropical storms could become almost simultaneous threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast early next week. Tropical storms Laura and Marco have such bad and good environments ahead of them that their futures were not clear late Friday. The last time two tropical storms were in the Gulf together was in 1959, he said. The hurricane center on Friday issued tropical storm warnings for the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico. The hurricane center also issued a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch for part of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula for Marco, which grew into a tropical storm Friday night.

Tropical Storm Josephine is chugging along through the middle of the ocean. Over the next day, the atmospheric environment is forecast to be just conducive enough that Josephine could become a slightly stronger tropical storm. The computer forecast models and the National Hurricane Center forecast track Josephine far enough away from the islands that only fringe effects are expected. Elsewhere, the National Hurricane Center is taking note of a non-tropical low-pressure system near the border of North Carolina and Virginia. Much was made of the fact that Josephine was the earliest-forming J storm in the record book.

Already smashing records, this years hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season is about to get even nastier, forecasters predict. The agency increased the chance of an above average hurricane season from 60% to 85%. Colorado State University, which pioneered hurricane season forecasts decades ago, on Wednesday amped its forecast to 24 named storms, 12 hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes all higher than their June forecast. An average year, based on 1981 to 2010 data, is 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes. There are 21 names assigned to a hurricane season.

Bryan Norcross talks with Dr. Phil Klotzbach about the current uncertain situation in the tropics related to Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine. Plus why this hurricane season looks like it will be very busy, and more hurricane talk. Download the audio podcast below. SUBSCRIBE to The Bryan Norcross Podcast - iTunes | Android

MIAMI Tropical Storm Hanna strengthened slightly Friday as it moves toward the Texas coastline, threatening to bring heavy rain, rough waters and strong winds, all while another tropical storm continued to approach the Caribbean. A tropical storm warning was in effect from the mouth of the Rio Grande to San Luis Pass, Texas. A tropical storm watch that had been in effect from San Luis Pass to High Island, Texas, was discontinued. Tropical Storm Gonzalo was also the earliest Atlantic named storm for its place in the alphabet. A tropical storm warning is in effect for several places, including St. Lucia, Tobago and Grenada.

Lately, the dust has been thin enough that some thunderstorms have broken through it, but generally the dust is in control of the atmosphere in our part of the world. There is a tropical disturbance between Africa and the Caribbean islands that the computer model forecasts say is strong enough to plow through the dust and create a moister patch in the flow of air coming across the ocean. The disturbance will come with a change in our weather pattern finally. The dominant wind flow will come off the ocean, and when the disturbance comes by, it should be a good breeze. Between the dust and the general atmospheric pattern, conditions do lot look conducive for systems to develop this week.

Pedestrians use umbrellas to protect themselves from inclement weather brought about by Tropical Storm Fay, Friday, July 10, 2020, in New York. Beaches closed in Delaware and rain lashed the New Jersey shore as fast-moving Tropical Storm Fay churned north on a path expected to soak the New York City region. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)MIAMI – A tropical storm that brought heavy rain to mid-Atlantic states and southern New England was downgraded twice Saturday morning as is moved over New York, forecasters said. Fay had closed beaches and flooded shore town streets after it made landfall as a tropical storm Friday afternoon in New Jersey. Forecasters again decreased expected rain totals from Fay.

MIAMI Tropical Storm Fay slightly picked up speed and strength as it moved closer to land Friday, and forecasters decreased projections for rain totals and flooding. The storm picked up speed Friday morning, moving north around 10 mph (17 kph) and producing top sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph), forecasters said. Earlier observations showed it moving at 8 mph (13 kph) with top sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph). A tropical storm warning remained in effect from Cape May, New Jersey, to Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Fay is the earliest sixth-named storm on record, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.

ORLANDO, Fla. Even though the six-month Atlantic hurricane season lasts as long as a typical Major League Baseball season, a Florida congresswoman thinks it needs to be longer. In 2020, three tropical storms Arthur, Bertha and Cristobal formed in mid-May and the beginning of June, she said. There has been only one named hurricane before June since the satellite era started in 1966 Hurricane Alma in 1970. I dont think there is any reason to lengthen the hurricane season, since we havent had a hurricane in May in 50 years," Klotzbach said in an email. Hurricane season was also never intended to include ... all of the activity, just the majority of it," said McNoldy, who works for the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science.

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