Forecasters currently think 13 to 18 named storms could impact the East Coast.
Hurricane forecasters are, once again, predicting a busier-than-average hurricane season for the East Coast in 2025.
AccuWeather forecasts are predicting a “dynamic” 2025 season, said lead forecaster Alex DaSilva. Forecasters currently think 13 to 18 named storms could impact the East Coast. Of those, 7 to 10 could become hurricanes and a handful become major storms with sustained wind speeds reaching 111 mph or greater. Using analog years, or years with similar environmental conditions, the team can create a prediction of how this year may go.
“These are the areas that we’re concerned with: right around the northern Gulf Coast, the Big Bend of Florida, the west coast of Florida, and then getting up into the Carolinas as well, especially the Outer Banks of North Carolina,” DaSilva said. “This could mean that we could be seeing a lot of recurving systems that clip the North Carolina coastline or South Carolina coastline before continuing to move to the north and to the east.”
Hurricane season begins June 1 and runs through November.
Last year, the CSU team predicted 2024 hurricane activity would be about 170% of the average season from 1991-2020, but by the end of the season, the actual percentage was about 130%. By comparison, 2023’s hurricane activity was about 120% of the average season.
The Atlantic basin finished the 2024 season with 18 named storms, 11 hurricanes and five intensified to major hurricanes.
