Hurricane season update

For all of the articles saying we would be seeing an active tropic season, the news cycle seems pretty similar to what it has been for the past couple of years, you hear about a couple named storms, you watch the path pretty intensely when it gets close to making landfall, you hear about flooding and the damage, and that’s about it. Now usually that happens maybe three times in the hurricane season with a large storm making landfall in the US, but that’s over the 6-month time period that hurricane season is. Hurricane season is typically defined starting on June 1st and ending on November 30th, as this is when the water gets warm enough to produce enough energy for hurricanes The average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, with half of them becoming hurricanes, and most storms don’t get to hurricane status until August, so the fact that we’ve seen the earliest strongest hurricane with Beryl this year should tell you something. Another thing to note was that Katrina, Harvey, Ian, Maria, and Irma all formed in late August or early September, another signifier that the stronger storms are likely still on their way.

Ernesto has been named and is expected to make landfall on the island of Guadeloupe in the next coming hours, affecting some more of the Lesser Antilles as it makes its way to the northwest, Puerto Rico looks to be the next big island in its path. It isn’t expected to become hurricane strength until after it hits Puerto Rico and likely will not make landfall in the states. But if we learned anything from Beryl, it’s that a tropical storm's path can change on a dime. We will keep you updated with the path of Ernesto and all the tropical storm for the rest of the year.