The Atlantic hurricane season officially started on June 1, 2026.\u00a0 The hurricane season began quietly.\u00a0 No tropical depressions, tropical storms or hurricanes were present over the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, or the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 No tropical cyclones are expected to form over the Atlantic Ocean during the next few days.\u00a0 Whenever a tropical storm does form over the Atlantic Ocean, the first name on the list will be Arthur.<\/p>\n
Fewer tropical storms and hurricanes are expected to form over the Atlantic Ocean this year.\u00a0 A strong El Ni\u00f1o pattern is expected to develop over the Equatorial Pacific Ocean during the next few months.\u00a0 Much warmer than normal Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are expected to be present over the eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean during the hurricane season.<\/p>\n
The warmer Sea Surface Temperatures associated with an El Ni\u00f1o produce more rising motion and convection.\u00a0 The stronger rising motion begins to move toward the east when it reaches the upper troposphere where it produces stronger westerly winds.\u00a0 The stronger westerly winds blow over the Caribbean Sea and the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 Those stronger westerly winds cause more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 More vertical wind shear makes it more difficult for tropical storms and hurricanes to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Atlantic hurricane season officially started on June 1, 2026.\u00a0 The hurricane season began quietly.\u00a0 No tropical depressions, tropical storms or hurricanes were present over the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, or the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 No tropical cyclones are expected to form over the Atlantic Ocean during the next few days.\u00a0 Whenever a tropical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[999,2494,4158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24436,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24435\/revisions\/24436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}