Hurricane season will be busy, experts say
Dr. Michael Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Center, said he anticipated a busy hurricane season and urged people to start preparing.
The signal across the Atlantic shows that the 2025 hurricane season could be kicking more active gear in the coming days, but the obstacles a little closer to the US have attracted the attention of the National Hurricane Center.
In an update on July 22nd, the Hurricane Center flagged a low-pressure area off the northeastern Florida. This showed the possibility of its development after its renamed later in the week from the Gulf of Mexico, crossing over Florida to the US Gulf.
The system is projected to move west-southwest to the North Bay, according to an update from the Hurricane Centre at Hurricane Specialist Philippe Papin. Papin’s forecasts show that development chances will be just 10% in seven days, and that the system is likely to move inland by the end of the weekend.
Either way, that would likely mean a few more days of heavy rains along the northern Gulf, predictors say.
“As this disturbance progresses, expect the likelihood of rain and storms to increase towards the end of the week. It’s too early to say much for sure beyond that,” the Houston National Weather Service’s office posted on social media. In Lake Charles, Louisiana, the weather service said the Weather Service is expected to surge to the highest possible volume by the afternoon of July 24th.
Deja Vu’s interference?
If the Hurricane Center’s tropical outlook map appears familiar, this is because similar scenarios have been unfolding twice in recent weeks. On July 5th, tropical storm chantals formed from a low-pressure area in the southeastern United States. Chantal caused flooding in parts of North Carolina, with at least six deaths being blamed.
Then, on July 12, the Hurricane Center began to see another potential low-pressure area off the southeast coast, shaking along the state’s panhandle, over the Florida Peninsula in heavy rain on July 15. On July 17th, southeast Louisiana remained cluttered.
According to Phil Crozbach, a research scientist and co-author of Colorado State University’s seasonal outlook, Chantal was a little earlier than usual in the third-name Storm of the season. On average, the third-name storm of Atlantic hurricane season will form on August 3rd. After all season outlooks predict a busy season, the 2025 season may seem off to a late start, but hurricane experts don’t expect things to go quiet.
Hurricane specialist Michael Lowry is warming more than expected in the Atlantic region known as the “major development area” and the “major development area.” Sea surface temperatures rose sharply in the July region. Warm waters help fuel any potential storm systems that form in the region.
Raleigh praises the current warming of the Atlantic for the weakening of Bermuda High.
“After some of the strongest trade winds on record and the strongest trade winds in June since 1990, July trade winds were at least the weakest since 1979, writes Laurie, a veteran at the hurricane center and now a WPLG 10 expert in Miami. Other signals, including periodic vibrations to the oceans affecting hurricane activity and changes in monsoon winds in North Africa, also show potential increases in activity.
Dinah Voyles Purver covers climate change and the USA Today environment. She has been writing about hurricanes, tornadoes and violent weather for over 30 years. Contact her at dpulver @usatoday.com or @dinahvp.
