Forecasters Predict Below-Average 2014 Hurricane Season
Hurricane season begins June 1 and top forecasters with Colorado State University are predicting a quiet year.
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Hurricane season begins June 1 and top forecasters with Colorado State University are predicting a quiet year.
The early predictions for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season favored an above-average season. But as the season comes to a close, the Atlantic has churned out the fewest number of hurricanes since 1982.
The ninth tropical storm of the season is pounding eastern Mexico with heavy rains, and after a Hurricane Hunter Aircraft flew through the storm, the tropical storm watch for parts of Mexico have been changed to hurricane watch.
The predictions for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season carried words like "extremely active" and "above-average." But with Tuesday the peak of hurricane season, thus far, the season has luckily for South Florida been a dud.
Tropical Depression Gabrielle has dissipated, according to the National Weather Service.
Tropical Depression seven wasted no time morphing into a tropical storm Wednesday night.
NOAA still believes the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season will be above normal with "the possibility that it could be very active," according to the organizations updated outlook.
Chantal, the third named storm of the 2013 Hurricane Season, has gained a little strength as it moves away from Lesser Antilles into the Eastern Caribbean Sea.
Miami-Dade County has updated its storm surge planning zone maps as residents prepare for the 2013 hurricane season, which will begin on June 1.
The Atlantic Hurricane Season is definitely hitting its peak as Tropical Depression 11 has strengthened into Tropical Storm Kirk in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
While South Florida breathes a sigh of relief that no big storms have come near us this Atlantic Hurricane Season, many will also remember that 20-years ago this week Hurricane Andrew formed in the Atlantic and smashed into South Florida on August 24th causing billions in damage and dozens of deaths.
Swirling hundreds of miles off the Canadian coastline Chris, what was once the first hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, has weakened back into a tropical storm.
Tropical Storm Chris has begun its turn away from land as it churns away in the mid-Atlantic off the Canadian coast.
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is less than a month old, but the third named storm has formed well to the northeast of Bermuda.
Here we go again. Check your battery, water and canned food supplies. The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane season is officially underway.
Colorado State University climatologists Dr. William Gray and Phil Klotzbach have increased their predictions for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season by 3 named storms.
A Tropical Storm Watch along the South Carolina coast has been discontinued as Tropical Storm Alberto, the first tropical storm of 2012 season, meanders up the coastline.
The first tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season has formed off the coast of South Carolina with top winds of 45 mph (75 kph).
Dr. William Gray has issued his first prediction for the Atlantic Hurricane season and the numbers predict a weaker season that should be about 25 percent less active than the long-term average.
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Hurricane Irene, already a major Category 3 storm, has gotten stronger as it heads toward the East Coast but not before the eye moves over Crooked Island in the southeastern Bahamas.
Hurricane Irene downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday but is likely to restrengthen to a category 3 hurricane by Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center but the threat to South Florida is decreasing.
Hurricane Irene has strengthened to a category two hurricane as it churns toward the Bahamas.
Tropical Storm Irene is bearing down on St. Croix.
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