Hurricane

A disorganized area of low pressure that moved across north Florida from the Atlantic yesterday is migrating westward through the northern Gulf today.

The tropics should stay mostly quiet into the waning days of July.

The Atlantic basin has been undergoing a metamorphosis of sorts over the past few weeks, shedding its hostile early season shell for an increasingly conducive look with the hurricane season’s traditional busiest stretch only weeks away.

Late Friday, the National Hurricane Center tagged its first area of interest over the traditional Main Development Region or MDR of the Atlantic – the band of deep tropical waters east of the easternmost Caribbean islands – so far this hurricane season.

We continue to follow the progress of Invest 93L, an area of low pressure that moved from the Atlantic across the northern Florida peninsula on Tuesday and is now scraping westward through the state’s panhandle along the northern Gulf Coast.

So far in 2025, National Weather Service offices have issued more flood warnings than any other year on record dating back to 1986.

A disturbance that emerged off the coastal Carolinas on Sunday is expected to swing across Florida and into the Gulf by mid-week, where models suggest it could slowly develop as it scrapes across the northern Gulf Coast.

Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the Atlantic each hurricane season – typically peak around this time each year.

On Wednesday, some of the nation’s top hurricane scientists joined House Democrats for a virtual press conference to sound the alarm on proposed budget cuts that would severely degrade hurricane monitoring and forecasting.

Ahead of an appropriations committee meeting, several scientists are raising a red flag about a NOAA proposal to shutter all its weather and climate research labs.

Forecasters at Colorado State University – the pioneers of seasonal hurricane forecasting – issued their July outlook for the hurricane season, nudging down numbers from their April and June outlooks, but still calling for a slightly above average season overall.

July is a transition month in the Atlantic when we begin to look a little deeper into the basin and closer to Africa for hurricane seedlings.

The catastrophic flooding that ripped through parts of the Texas Hill Country along the Guadalupe River northwest of San Antonio during the predawn hours on July 4th quickly turned into an unspeakable tragedy, killing at least 82 people, including 28 children.

Parts of South Florida are bracing for gusty showers and thunderstorms Friday, with forecasters warning of winds up to 45 miles per hour and flashes of lightning as cells move quickly across the region.

Tropical Storm Chantal crept closer to the South Carolina coast Saturday evening, prompting expanded tropical storm warnings and raising concerns about flash flooding, heavy rainfall and gusty winds across parts of the Carolinas through the end of the weekend.