“It Only Takes One Storm To Derail Your Entire Season”

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Meteorologist Ian Mckenzie urges residents to get ahead of the game this hurricane season.

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is just weeks away, and weather experts are warning residents to brace for another above-average year.

While the official start date is June 1st, officials say now is the time to prepare and not panic.

Those numbers come from Colorado State University, a go-to for storm forecasting, and they’re higher than the usual average of 14 storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major ones.

So what’s pushing those numbers up?

“ …The el events, sea surface temperatures, warm and sea surface temperatures, and the Sahara dusk as well…would influence the amount of storms that we could have in the Atlantic basin in any typical season,” Mckenzie says.

This year, the region is in what forecasters call a neutral phase, meaning no strong El Niño or La Niña pattern is expected to help suppress or intensify storm activity, which has many meteorologists on high alert.

“ It increases the vertical wind, wind share of the storms, and that’s once you have an increase in vertical wind share…It creates the death of a storm pretty much [as] it suffocates the systems,” Mckenzie says.

Warmer waters are making storms stronger, and sometimes they form much earlier than expected.

Last year, we saw a strong system Hurricane Beryl form in June, and being said, with May being Hurricane Preparedness Month, experts have this advice:

“ Prepare accordingly, ensure that your documentation is in place, and ensure that you have a hurricane plan. Check up on hurricane supplies…your insurance…and also attend as many workshops or preparedness seminars,” McKenzie says.