The 2023 hurricane season has resembled anything but an El Nino year, with more activity in the Atlantic basin than normal. The activity has some climate forecasters wondering if El Nino and La Nina have the bearings they once did or whether climate change is more influential to tropical cyclone formations.
June through August is brutal on the east coast. Triple digit heat. Humidity. Mosquitoes. Worst of all, lake Atlantic is in full effect. Unless there's a little trade swell or tropical activity, it can be flat for weeks (and months) at a time. Come September, hurricane season .
The calendar has flipped to October, but tropical threats continue to loom in the Atlantic and East Pacific Ocean Basins. Oftentimes, tropical activity will start winding down during the month of October as the season nears its end on Nov. 30. This year, AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring several threats into the first few weeks of the new month. Philippe first became a tropical storm back on Sept. 23 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Ever since, the storm as been slowly moving in a ge
Even though the climatological peak of hurricane season – Sept. 10 – was nearly a month ago, residents living along the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S. shouldn't let their guard down in October.
The calendar has flipped to October, but tropical threats continue to loom in the Atlantic and East Pacific Ocean Basins. Often times, tropical activity will start winding down during the month of October, as the season nears its end on Nov. 30. This year, AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring several threats into the first few weeks of the new month. Philippe first became a tropical storm back on Sept. 23 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Ever since, the storm as been slowly moving westw