Holding out hope for big big 'cane's this year. Got keep the fear real.
MIAMI – As the Atlantic and Gulf coasts anxiously wade into the first week of what’s been anticipated to become one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record, the tropics have been eerily quiet so far.
With no named storms yet through June 5, it’s the latest the Atlantic Basin has gone without its first named storm in a decade. The 2014 hurricane season took the entire month of June off, with Tropical Storm Arthur waiting to form until July 1 as the season’s inaugural named storm.
Does this late start mean the aggressive forecasts for the hurricane season could have been too aggressive?
Not at all, forecasters say.
"On average, the first named storm of the year usually doesn’t form until mid-to-late June, so it’s not unusual to be quiet so far," National Hurricane Director Michael Brennan told FOX Weather. "The vast majority of hurricane activity and most of the major hurricanes occur during those months of August, September and October. And that’s what we’d expect to see this year with those warm ocean temperatures and the developing La Niña."
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