Hurricane watchers issue new report on what's ahead
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The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be “below normal,” largely due to an El Niño weather pattern, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA’s hurricane season outlook, released Thursday, forecasts 8 to 14 ...
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These factors shape Wilmington's hurricane risk, climate report says
While not immune to storms, one climate publication suggests Wilmington may be calmer during hurricane season than some might expect.
The 2025 hurricane season was a coming-of-age story for AI weather models, which have been around in some capacity since around 2022. Last hurricane season, AI models not only proved they could compete with the gold-standard corrected consensus models ...
At 8 a.m. Thursday, the National Hurricane Center issued an advisory stating that Tropical Storm Bertha is 145 miles west-southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana and 70 miles southeast of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Spring is finally in full bloom, but some weather forecasters are already fast-forwarding a few months to hurricane season. The Atlantic season spans from June through November, and because of a burgeoning El Niño, this year’s could diverge from the ...