Hurricane Hone drenches Hawaii’s big island
Another hurricane is approaching the island. Two named storms have not come near the islands in a week span since the 90s.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking two disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean, the agency said in its latest advisory issued Wednesday.
In the Western Atlantic, an area of low pressure located a few hundred miles southeast of Bermuda is producing a “small area of disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity,” the NHC said. However, dry air and strong upper-level winds “are expected to limit additional development of this system during the next day or so.”
The hurricane center gives the disturbance a 10% chance of development in the next seven days.
In the Central Tropical Atlantic, the NHC said an area of low pressure “could form in the central portion of the Tropical Atlantic” in a few days. After that, environmental conditions appear “generally favorable” for slow development of the system this weekend into early next week while it moves westward to west-northwestward.
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Atlantic storm trackerUnusually quiet hurricane season in Atlantic so far
So far this year, there have been more storms in the Pacific than the Atlantic, and that’s a bit of a surprise, forecasters say. In addition, it’s been eerily calm in the Atlantic over the past week or so as we approach what’s traditionally the busiest time of the season.
“It is quiet out there,” Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach told USA TODAY on Monday. “I certainly wasn’t expecting this when we put out our most recent seasonal forecast!”
Klotzbach said that if we look at named storms (tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes), the last time that we went from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2 with no named storm activity in the Atlantic was 1997.
Busy time in the Pacific
As portions of Hawaii’s Big Island recover from the flooding rains and damaging winds of Tropical Storm Hone, residents across the state on Tuesday were gearing up for Tropical Storm Gilma.
The storm has yet to trigger any land advisories as it churns in open waters, but forecasters have warned Gilma could unleash torrential rain, showers, heavy winds and produce dangerous rip currents later in the week. Residents across the state began preparing for the rare back-to-back storms, even while Hone was drenching portions of Big Island with more than two feet of rain.
On its current track, forecasters expect Gilma to begin swiping the state late this week and into the weekend as it pushes just north of the islands.
Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X @GabeHauari or email him at [email protected].
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