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The Atlantic hurricane season got off to a busy start, then there was a lull. What can you expect next?

AccuWeather

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is still expected to be a busy one, despite a brief lull in activity after a fast start in May and June.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a 60% chance of an above normal season: As many as 19 named storms and up to 10 hurricanes.

“You need to be preparing for this season as if this is the year you’re going to get hit,” Dennis Feltgen, meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, told USA TODAY. “If you do that, the odds are very good you will be a hurricane survivor, rather than a hurricane victim.”

The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, has already seen five named storms. The peak of the season is mid-August through late October, and people should be on guard, meteorologists say.

There will not be an El Niño climate pattern present this season, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. El Niño, a natural warming of seawater in the tropical Pacific Ocean, tends to decrease hurricane activity in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Weather conditions are trending toward a neutral or a La Niña climate pattern, indicating cooler ocean water that often increases hurricanes in the Atlantic.

Feltgen said the Atlantic hurricane season is “ahead of the pace” with its early start. Tropical Storm Edouard, the earliest fifth tropical storm since the 1960s, became a post-tropical cyclone on Monday as it tracked toward Ireland and the United Kingdom, AccuWeather reported.

Arthur and Bertha both formed off of the eastern U.S. shoreline in May. Cristobal became the Atlantic’s earliest “C” named storm on record June 2. In past years, “C” named storms do not typically occur until around mid-August. Cristobal reached land along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Dolly was the second-earliest “D” named storm to ever reach the basin, though it did not make landfall.

Meteorologists are also monitoring a disturbance along the Atlantic coastline, which could develop into Tropical Storm Fay, but the system was not likely to intensify into a hurricane.

“It is likely a tropical depression or subtropical depression will form close to the coast, where the overall ceiling for intensification is lower,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Randy Adkins said. “If it moves farther from the coast, it is more likely it will develop into Fay.”

Still, the storm produced flooding in the Carolinas on Thursday and is expected to move northward along the coast this week, reaching New England by Friday.

Gonzalo and Hannah will be the next two named storms of 2020.

 

This article was originally published on Usatoday.com

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