CSU team predicts slightly below-average 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team is predicting 11 named storms during the hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team is predicting 11 named storms during the hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
Bell has entered into a research partnership with Philip Klotzbach, the primary author of the seasonal forecasts and verifications.
The Tropical Meteorology Project has summarized all tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic basin during the 2016 hurricane season and has compared the project's seasonal and two-week forecasts to what actually occurred.
The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project is predicting a total of 11 additional named storms to form this season, including the currently active Earl.
In an update to the April forecast, Colorado State University hurricane researchers continue to predict a near-average hurricane season for the Atlantic basin in 2016.
While El Niño is weakening and is likely to dissipate prior to this summer, the far North Atlantic is quite cold.
The 2015 hurricane season had below-average activity, although observed levels of activity were slightly more than predicted by CSU's hurricane forecasting team.
CSU experts can discuss Hurricane Patricia.
CSU researchers call for only five more named storms, one major hurricane through November.
Eight named storms, and only one major hurricane, expected to form in the Atlantic for 2015.