So far this year, there have been three named tropical storms. Remember it only takes one storm to make a season memorable so don’t let your guard down just yet.
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– Zero to two major hurricanes – those of at least Category 3 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Simply put, El Niño is the warming of the eastern Pacific ocean waters near the equator (off the western coast of South America).
Hilda stays a small and compact hurricane with hurricane wins solely extending 15 miles from his middle and tropical storm winds extending 70 miles.
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.
The most impressive tropical wave of the season is moving into the Central Atlantic and could be a tropical storm or hurricane in only a few days.
– Warming in the central equatorial Pacific: higher number of Atlantic tropical cyclones.
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But will it develop further? “As we’ve seen before, below-normal seasons can still produce catastrophic impacts to communities”, said NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D., referring to the 1992 season in which only seven named storms formed, yet the first was Andrew – a Category 5 major hurricane.
