CSU team continues to predict near-average Atlantic hurricane season
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.
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 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.