The heart of hurricane season

AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno breaks down when the heart of hurricane season is.

Transcript

00:00all right we're closing in on the heart of the hurricane season take a look this is the timing

00:09of the hurricane season which begins in june ends in november sometimes you can get storms

00:15uh at the beginning before the season starts and even at the end of the and after the season ends

00:22but the majority of them are right in here from mid-august right through the month of september

00:27where you see a lot of the named storms and of course not only the hurricanes but the strongest

00:33hurricanes occur during that time so it's mostly august and the month of september here are the

00:38breeding grounds early in the month you know you look near the united states in fact we had

00:44um storms uh off the east coast southeast coast of the united states earlier uh in the month but by

00:51the time you get in the mid to late august as our jet stream continues to lift north you lose the

00:57homegrown development and you start looking at these tropical waves coming off africa and that's

01:01why you see the breeding ground here uh a little farther in the tropical atlantic now there's a

01:06reason for that because once we get into the heart of hurricane season we start getting the peak of the

01:11water temperatures in the atlantic basin that's number one number two less wind shear and more

01:19critically less saharan dust and with warm waters less dust less shear you start opening up all of

01:28the atlantic basin for development and in fact when you look at the month of september where you get

01:35storms note that the entire atlantic basin is open for business hot spots include the northwest caribbean

01:44and the gulf and much of the southwestern atlantic and these are generally steered around our bermuda

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