Forecasters at Colorado State University – the group to pioneer seasonal hurricane forecasting in the early 1980s – issued its first outlook for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season on Thursday. Their outlook calls for an “extremely active” hurricane season in 2024, with 23 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and five hurricanes to reach Category 3, 4, or 5 status, with winds of 111 mph or stronger.
It is daring to predict anything weather-related months in advance, but the key factor for hurricanes are water temperatures of the oceans and the Gulf of Mexico, so their predictions might have some merits.