There hasn’t been a named storm in the Atlantic Ocean since early October, but about a month remains in the hurricane season. “Don’t raid your hurricane supplies yet,” said one meteorologist.
The waters across the Atlantic Ocean have been mostly calm. There hasn’t been widespread panic to buy plywood, sandbags or generators in weeks. The National Hurricane Center’s Twitter account hasn’t shared an active-storm message for the Atlantic since Oct.9, and there have been no warnings or threats along the Gulf Coast and East Coast since. Is hurricane season fizzling out early? “Nope. We’re not done yet,” Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the National Hurricane Center, said on Thursday, adding that hurricane season doesn’t officially end until Nov.30. In May, scientists predicted an “above normal” Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 20 named storms. The National Weather Service later updated that forecast to 15 to 21 storms, including seven to 10 hurricanes. That followed the record-setting 2020 season, when there were 30 named storms, including 13 hurricanes. But as of Friday, only 20 named storms had come and gone, leaving just Wanda on a list of names created by weather officials. The last major hurricane was Sam, which formed in late September and strengthened into a Category 4 storm as it crossed the Atlantic.
