NOAA hurricane forecast for 2025 season announced
Hurricane season 2025 is almost here and now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a prediction about how bad the season may be.
NOAA is releasing their forecast at a news conference on May 22, at 11 a.m. ET. Watch a livestream of the event below.
The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1 and continues through November 30. The first storm name will be Andrea.
Other top forecasters are predicting an active season. Colorado State University's hurricane forecasting team, led by Phil Klotzbach, predicted 17 total named storms, of which 9 will be hurricanes, in its April forecast.
AccuWeather's forecast, which came out in March, calls for 13-18 named storms, of which 7-10 will be hurricanes.
The record for most actual named storms in a season is 30, set in 2020. A typical year averages about 14 tropical storms, seven of which spin into hurricanes, based on weather records that date from 1991 to 2020.
Though no tropical cyclones have formed in the Atlantic or Pacific so far this year, the National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression could form next week in the eastern Pacific Ocean south of Mexico. It's too soon to say if the system would impact any land areas.
Last year, 18 named storms formed, including devastating Hurricanes Helene and Milton. With more than 400 fatalities, 2024 was the nation's deadliest hurricane season since 2005, said National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan. It was also the third-costliest on record, after 2017 and 2005.
With a U.S. death toll of at least 241, Helene was the continental United States' deadliest single storm since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when about 1,400 people died.
Other deadly storms in 2024 included Hurricanes Beryl and Milton, each of which killed over 40 people in the United States.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hurricane season 2025 forecast from NOAA announced
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