Quiet Start to the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Expected

The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season, forecasted to be extraordinarily busy by meteorologists at NOAA and experts at CSU, is set to begin this weekend, running from June 1 through November 30. Despite the predictions for a busy season, the National Hurricane Center has announced a quiet start with no tropical cyclone formations expected in the first week. The latest satellite photographs from GOES-East confirm this outlook, showing no areas of concern for tropical cyclone formation at this time.
Although no tropical cyclones are expected to form imminently, there are several weather systems and cloud clusters observed across the Atlantic basin. Among these, a tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic is moving westward with scattered moderate to isolated strong convection noted between latitudes 5N and 8N. Another tropical wave in the central Atlantic is also moving westward, with isolated to scattered moderate convection mainly behind its axis. Additionally, a third tropical wave over the eastern Caribbean is extending southward into central Venezuela, inducing some convective activity as it moves westward.
As the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season approaches, the list of names for potential storms has been prepared, ready to be used should any storm require naming prior to the season’s official start.