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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will officially begin on June 1, just slightly over two months away. As the start of the season draws closer, confidence increases in forecasting the upcoming hurricane season. The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season finished with above-average activity despite a strong El Nino, with 20 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes. However, it was the least destructive season since 2014, and no names were retired for the first time since that year. It appears…

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In just over two months, the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season will begin. The 2022 season was somewhat quieter than recent seasons, but still was quite impactful. Since 2016, the Atlantic basin has had at least 14 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes each year, with not one below-average season during this timeframe. There is an increasing chance that streak could end this year as El Niño chances appear to be increasing for this summer and fall. El Niño…

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The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season got off to a very fast start, with Tropical Storm Ana forming in May, Tropical Storms Bill, Claudette and Danny in June, and Hurricane Elsa in early July. Elsa was the earliest hurricane to form in the Atlantic deep tropics east of the Lesser Antilles of the satellite era, and passed near Barbados as a hurricane. Elsa made several landfalls along its path through the Caribbean, and eventually made landfall in northwestern Florida as a…

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The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record in terms of named storms, featuring a record-breaking 30 named storms, 13 hurricanes, and 6 major hurricanes pending remaining reanalysis. The season exhausted the conventional naming list, requiring usage of the Greek Alphabet for the second time. Since two Greek Alphabet names were retired, Eta and Iota, they could not be replaced in the current system. The names Dorian from 2019 and Laura from 2020 were…

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