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2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season opens with below-normal forecast
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season began on Monday, June 1, 2026, with forecasters calling for a quieter-than-usual year, but federal and university outlooks continue to stress a point familiar to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands: even a below-normal season can produce one storm capable of changing lives, damaging infrastructure and disrupting entire communities.
New tropical wave could approach VI by weekend
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The National Hurricane Center’s 2:00 AM Tropical Weather Outlook for August 18, 2025, reports a large area of disorganised showers and thunderstorms over the eastern tropical Atlantic associated with a tropical wave.
Signs of an early start to the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season
MIAMI, Florida, USA- The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season began Wednesday, April 24, when the National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued its first tropical outlook of the season.
NHC monitoring Invest 94L in Atlantic
MIAMI, Florida, USA- A tropical depression is expected to form over the next few days in the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Tropical Storm Sean forms in eastern Atlantic
MIAMI, Florida, USA- Tropical Storm Sean formed early Wednesday, October 11, 2023, from a system off Africa that’s headed generally west toward the central Atlantic, and there’s another system not far behind.
TS Philippe: NHC issues Tropical Storm Watch for VI
MIAMI, Florida, USA- The National Hurricane Centre (NHC) has issued a Tropical Storm Watch for the [British] Virgin Islands due to the location of Tropical Storm Philippe.
Tropical Storm Bret grows stronger, slows down
MIAMI, Florida, USA- Tropical Storm Bret grew stronger and slowed down overnight, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center today, June 21, 2023.
Hurricane Earl forecast to reach Cat 4 strength; Swells to reach US east coast
MIAMI, Florida, USA- Hurricane Earl continues to strengthen, with winds now at 105 mph, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Ida an ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 4 hurricane nearing Louisiana- NHC
LOUISIANA, USA- Hurricane Ida strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm and was "still intensifying," packing maximum sustained winds of 150 mph with higher gusts as it neared Louisiana on Sunday morning, August 29, 2021, the National Hurricane Center has said.
4 active tropical cyclone systems in Atlantic
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- According to the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), Kyle is now a post tropical cyclone and is moving to the east and away from the United States coastline.
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