Atlantic hurricane season kicks off this coming weekend
The beginning of June will mark the start of what AccuWeather forecasters say could be an extremely active hurricane season for 2024.
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00:00 as we work our way here toward the upcoming weekend. Saturday starts the
00:03 official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, and we're looking north here
00:07 into the north Atlantic and already running well above the historical
00:10 average with regards to sea surface water temperatures. Jeff, absolutely. We
00:13 are on pace with where we would typically be deeper into the summer and
00:18 look out for what will be a very active season. Here were forecasting an above
00:22 average season for named storms, hurricanes, number of major hurricanes,
00:26 and there's a 10 plus percent chance of 30 named storms, which would tie the
00:31 record from what? 2020. Yeah, that's right. That was a very, very active
00:36 year here and again, the exclusive acuba, the forecast calling for 20 to
00:39 25 named storms. That would be again a very, very busy. Absolutely. We'll be
00:45 quite closely watching for things to evolve here, and we made it into the
00:49 season here as of Saturday with no official named storms. But our time is
00:54 borrowed I think at this point.