Colorado State researchers project 18 total named storms, compared to the average of 14. Five have already occurred.
, with increased odds of a major hurricane striking the U.S. Gulf Coast or Eastern Seaboard this season. It could mark the eighth consecutive season with an average or above-average number of storms in the Atlantic, which has been churning out destructive hurricanes at a breakneck pace since the last slowdown in 2015.Tuesday and increased its projections for the number of named storms from 11 to 15 to 13 to 17, which is in the near- to above-normal range.
on U.S. soil, compared with a long-term historic average of 43 percent. Specifically, the East Coast, including the Atlantic coast of the Florida Peninsula, has a 25 percent chance of encountering a major hurricane, and the Gulf of Mexico coast has a 31 percent chance, according to their outlook.A budding El Niño pattern is expected to peak in the autumn and will probably persist into the first half of the wintertime.
“Sea surface temperatures across most of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic remain at record levels,” wrote Colorado State’s update, spearheaded by researcher Philip Klotzbach, “so despite the potential for a moderate/strong El Niño, the impacts on tropical Atlantic/Caribbean vertical wind shear are likely to not be as strong as is typically experienced given the extremely warm Atlantic.
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Colorado Republican Party files lawsuits against Secretary of State Jena Griswold, seeking to close primariesAs part of its chairman’s desire to close its primaries to all but registered Republican voters, the Colorado Republican Party filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jena Griswold in federal court Monday, seeking to invalidate a 2016 ballot measure.
Read more »
State of disaster: State Republican parties across the country are strugglingBattleground state GOPs took a nosedive in Trump era. Can they recover? Does it matter?
Read more »
Election to stop out-of-state special interests funded by out-of-state special interests83% of the 'Vote No' campaign is coming from out-of-state special interests, which 'Vote Yes' advocates say is the problem they're trying to solve. How much money for the 'Vote Yes' campaign is coming from out-of-state? 83%.
Read more »
Heading to Sturgis? CDOT, CSP planning increased DUI enforcementAs thousands of motorcyclists headed to the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally start riding across Colorado, state officials announced increased patrols on state roadways.
Read more »
How Biden's Space Command decision became his newest feud with Sen. TubervilleThe Pentagon announced that Biden had decided not to relocate the Space Command headquarters to Huntsville, Ala., calling the decision a “deliberate process informed by data and analysis.” Tuberville condemned the move, calling it a “disastrous mistake.'
Read more »
EPA rejects Suncor’s air-pollution permit for second time, demands Colorado regulators make changesThe EPA on Tuesday rejected one of Suncor’s new air-quality permits and kicked it back to Colorado environmental regulators to make changes that would further limit pollution from the refiner…
Read more »