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AccuWeather lowers seasonal hurricane forecast after a slow August in the Atlantic
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9/3/2024
AccuWeather forecasters are still anticipating more major hurricanes this fall, but the overall number of expected storms for the season is lower.
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AccuWeather experts have been talking about a potentially supercharged September for weeks
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as we head toward the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, but there's a bit of a new
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development here as we step a little deeper into the month. Yeah, AccuWeather's Chief Meteorologist
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Jonathan Porter joins us with the details on why it has been so quiet as of late.
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Well, good afternoon. It certainly has been noteworthy. You can almost hear a pin drop here
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across the entire tropical Atlantic. There are now some clusters of thunderstorms trying to
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organize that we're going to be monitoring as we head toward the peak of the hurricane season.
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And John, we look at the annual, the typical tally of storms, kind of the plots of when we
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see tropical storms and hurricanes form. How are we doing on the calendar right now? Obviously,
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we have plenty of season to go. Well, the challenge with this whole setup here has been,
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look at this time period from the middle and end of August and early September. That's when you're
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typically ramping it up like a hockey stick, right? It's a quick increase in the frequency
01:06
of tropical storms and hurricanes. That has not been the case this year because of lots of dry
01:12
air and unfavorable winds in the atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic that we've been covering
01:16
here at AccuWeather for the last several weeks. And Brian, you were talking about how our most
01:23
recent storm to form was Ernesto back on August 12th. So, we've had quite the stretch here. Yeah,
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and the last time this happened was back in the 60s. So, this isn't necessarily typical. We do
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see some action during that late August, early September time period that you were just mentioning,
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John, but it just hasn't happened. Absolutely. And as we look ahead, John, we do expect to see
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some more activity. So, what is our forecast for the whole season? Okay, AccuWeather experts have
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made adjustments to our seasonal total hurricane forecast. We've done that ahead of all other
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sources to reduce these numbers in terms of the overall seasonal forecast. Now, forecasting 16 to
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20 named storms. That's down from 20 to 25. Six to 10 hurricanes, three to six major hurricanes,
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but still expecting four to six direct U.S. impacts. We've already had two direct impacts,
02:15
so a couple more here as we head through the rest of the hurricane season. And we want to remind
02:20
people we've had already significant impacts in the Caribbean and the United States from
02:25
hurricanes this season, and it just takes one tropical storm, hurricane, or a tropical rainstorm
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to create a real disaster. So, this is not the time to let your guard down. Yeah, we have a few
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threat zones that we're monitoring, of course, in the Atlantic Basin. Two lows and two mediums. Of
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course, we're going to continue to keep an eye on these systems, and of course, we're going to
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check back in with you, John, as we go through this hurricane season. Well, thank you so much
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for joining us. Well, we are going to be dealing with a couple of areas to watch here over the
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next several days. One in the southern Gulf of Mexico. We'll be watching that particular setup,
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and a couple of areas also in the main development region of the tropical Atlantic,
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as well as off the southeast coast for potential tropical development later this week.
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All right, John, thank you so much for joining us. We, of course,
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will continue to check back in with you and our hurricane experts here at AccuWeather.
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