The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average hurricane season with as many as 21 named storms and several major storms. NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad says their outlook is predicting between six and ten hurricanes.
“And of these three to six major hurricanes, ranked as Categories 3, 4 or 5 with top winds of at least 111 miles per hour,” said Spinrad.
The hurricane season begins June 1st. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell says the public should get ready now.
“It’s incredibly important that you understand what your and your family’s risk is, again as we saw from Hurricane Ida, from the coast to the Midwest to the Eastern Seaboard people had impacts across nine states,” said Criswell.
Sprinrad says several climate factors give them confidence we’ll see an active hurricane season, including the ongoing La Nina and warmer than average sea surface temperatures.
“The temperature of the ocean in the Atlantic which is higher right now also affects that and if we have particularly active enhanced west African monsoon season as we do now,” said Spinrad.
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