National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham will be the keynote presenter at the annual Hurricane Preparedness Workshop for the Florida Keys Tourism Industry set to begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 27.
Graham will focus on enhanced forecast products for the official 2021 Atlantic Basin hurricane season that begins June 1 and continues through Nov. 30. Heâll also concentrate on the seasonâs outlook and the importance of using trusted information sources in the three-hour virtual event.
âThe 2020 hurricane season was the most active on record, with 30 named storms including 14 hurricanes, seven of which were major hurricanes,â Graham noted. âEleven storms made landfall along the U.S. coastline, four of which came ashore in Louisiana.â