You may have noticed our unusually active tropical season. With eleven named storms already reported, the active trend is expected to continue. The peak of hurricane season comes in September and we are already exceeding the number of storms not usually met until the end of hurricane season.
We spoke with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for their predictions. "The official forecast from NOAA, which was updated a couple of weeks ago, shows us having between 19 and 25 named storms by the end of the season," says Dan Lindsey, NOAA Goes-R Program Scientist. "Of those, between 7 and 11 will become hurricanes and 3 to 6 will be major hurricanes, which means category 3 or higher."
With only 21 names on the tropical system list, these projections will likely result in using letters of the Greek Alphabet to name the storms - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on.
Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Marco are projected to be named in the coming days. They are expected to make landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane next week.
This amount of Altlantic action might remind you of the 2005 hurricane season. Where the record for 27 named storms is held, including the well known Hurricane Katrina. The fifteen-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is on August 29th.
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