“Tropical storms and hurricanes can and do strike the United States, even in below-normal seasons and during El Niño events”, said Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.
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Whether it’s protecting your home and property or making plans for any circumstance, it’s always important to be prepared for whatever is to come.
A large cluster of thunderstorms, often called a tropical wave, pushed off the coast of Africa and is now making it’s way westward through the Atlantic.
The 2014 season featured the fewest number of named storms in 17 years with a total of eight named storms.
El Nino was first officially declared by NOAA as winter wound down.
Strengthening El Niño in the eastern Pacific has created conditions that are less than ideal for tropical development in the typical hot spot areas in the Atlantic up to this point.
Both the National Hurricane Center’s five-day potential formation area and a variety of computer models predict the potential storm will move mostly west across the Atlantic towards the Caribbean Sea.
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The 2015 Hurricane Season has been incredibly quiet so far with only 3 tropical storms, none of which have become hurricanes. In fact, the peak of hurricane season crests in the second week of September which is quickly approaching.
