Important Takeaways:

• AccuWeather has released their first forecast for the 2025 season and it includes as many as six major storms directly hitting the US this summer.
• This year, forecasters project that there will be as many as 18 named storms, up to 10 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes to watch carefully as they cross the Atlantic.
• Currently, the AccuWeather team believes it’s highly unlikely that this year’s hurricane season will be weaker than average.
• In the worst-case scenarios, 2025’s storms could start forming as early as May and the last hurricanes of the season in October and November could still be dangerously powerful.
• The ominous forecast is being fueled by meteorologists predicting an absence of El Niño this hurricane season.
• El Niño is a weather phenomenon that can last for eight to 12 months and brings unusually warm sea-surface temperatures to the eastern half of the Pacific – but it also creates a weakened storm system in the Atlantic.
• ‘Similar to last year, the northern and eastern Gulf Coast and the Carolinas are at a higher-than-average risk of direct impacts this season. Atlantic Canada as well as the northeastern Caribbean are also at an increased risk of direct impacts,’ AccuWeather added.
• While hurricane season officially begins June 1, meteorologists noted that the sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic basin are currently far warmer than normal.

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