Researchers scale down hurricane season forecast ahead of 'powerful' El Niño
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With the second month of hurricane season underway, researchers at Colorado State University reduced their forecast for the rest of the season, citing a "powerful" El Niño predicted to take hold later this summer.
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The upcoming Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to be much quieter than usual, according to meteorologists at Colorado State University. In their June 10 updated seasonal forecast, researchers lowered their initial numbers from April, pointing to a rapidly developing climate pattern in the Paci…
Colorado State University has updated its annual Atlantic hurricane forecast, predicting nine named storms and four hurricanes may develop during the 2026 season.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Colorado State University has once again lowered its outlook for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season as the effects of a strong El Niño continue to create an increasingly hostile environment for tropical development.
After months of predicting a “below normal” hurricane season, weather researchers at Colorado State University further downgraded their forecast on Tuesday and now expect even fewer tropical storms than average to form in the Atlantic this year. Forecasters now anticipate…
With the second month of hurricane season underway, researchers at Colorado State University reduced their forecast for the rest of the season, citing a "powerful" El Niño predicted to take hold later this summer.
With the second month of hurricane season underway, researchers at Colorado State University reduced their forecast for the rest of the season, citing a "powerful" El Niño predicted to take hold later this summer.
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Colorado State University hurricane season forecast update is out and the news is good. The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season forecast has been lowered to well below normal, largely due to strengthening El Niño conditions expected to peak during the height of the…
Colorado State University has lowered its forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season and now expects well below-normal activity, citing a strengthening El Niño that is likely to suppress storm formation during the peak of the season.
On July 8, 2026, Colorado State University, one of the two organizations that make Atlantic hurricane season forecasts, revised their forecast down for 2026. The post Atlantic hurricane season forecast updated due to El Niño first appeared on EarthSky .
Storm forecasters have further downgraded predictions a little more than a month into the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, which has so far produced a single named tropical system. For a season initially anticipated to be “somewhat below-normal,” Colorado State University researchers on Wednesday red…
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