Hurricane

It’s August, a big month for the hurricane season when activity ramps up in a hurry and powerful hurricanes can threaten from every direction.

July, despite a few very significant tropically-driven floods, will end on a mostly quiet note.

Saharan dust plumes heaved through the Atlantic from the deserts of North Africa each summer – providing rich nutrients for soils of the Amazon while helping to curb early season hurricane activity – has been largely a no-show so far.

The Central Pacific records its strongest hurricane in almost two years and two concurrent named storms for the first time in a decade.

As people prepare for hurricane season, those who are caregivers to patients with dementia and other illnesses have many things to consider when making sure they are ready for a potential storm to come through.

As we discussed in Friday’s newsletter, the Atlantic is beginning its pivot into the traditionally busiest 6-week stretch of the hurricane season.

There’s often a point in the hurricane season – typically in August – when forecast models wake up, suddenly realizing the Atlantic’s in shape to start churning out hurricanes.

A disorganized area of low pressure that moved across north Florida from the Atlantic yesterday is migrating westward through the northern Gulf today.

The tropics should stay mostly quiet into the waning days of July.

The Atlantic basin has been undergoing a metamorphosis of sorts over the past few weeks, shedding its hostile early season shell for an increasingly conducive look with the hurricane season’s traditional busiest stretch only weeks away.

Late Friday, the National Hurricane Center tagged its first area of interest over the traditional Main Development Region or MDR of the Atlantic – the band of deep tropical waters east of the easternmost Caribbean islands – so far this hurricane season.

We continue to follow the progress of Invest 93L, an area of low pressure that moved from the Atlantic across the northern Florida peninsula on Tuesday and is now scraping westward through the state’s panhandle along the northern Gulf Coast.

So far in 2025, National Weather Service offices have issued more flood warnings than any other year on record dating back to 1986.

A disturbance that emerged off the coastal Carolinas on Sunday is expected to swing across Florida and into the Gulf by mid-week, where models suggest it could slowly develop as it scrapes across the northern Gulf Coast.

Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the Atlantic each hurricane season – typically peak around this time each year.