A combination of rising water temperatures and ebbing El Niño conditions in the Pacific have prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to forecast a potentially record-breaking hurricane season for the North Atlantic, with the expectation of at least 13 hurricanes to form over the season. “This season is lookingread more
Hurricane Ida’s destructive appearance marks the first Category-4 hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, causing massive damage and flooding across the state of Louisiana. The storm’s impact was compounded by the resilience of its powerful Category-4 winds, a tempest that held on to its open-water strength—even hours after theread more
For the sixth year in a row, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season will be another above-average year, although they don’t anticipate that this year will be a repeat of 2020’s “hyperactive” season, with a record-breaking number of storms. Additionally, 2021 is now the seventh yearread more
Two storm systems are headed into the Gulf of Mexico and could become hurricanes. One may strike the Florida Panhandle and the other the Texas Gulf Coast. Both of the systems are predicted to strengthen into hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, possibly by Monday or Tuesday. Because the Gulfread more