2025 Atlantic hurricane season
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| Year = 2025
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| West Pacific season = 2025 Pacific typhoon season
| East Pacific season = 2025 Pacific hurricane season
| North Indian season = 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
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The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is the next Atlantic hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially begins on June 1, 2025, and will end on November 30, 2025. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most subtropical or tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic Ocean (over 97%). The National Hurricane Center (NHC) will begin issuing regular Tropical Weather Outlooks on May 15, 2025, about two weeks prior to the start of the season.
Seasonal forecasts
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|align="center"|Source |align="center"|Date |align="center"|Named |align="center"|Hurricanes |align="center"|Major |align="center"|Ref | ||||
align="center" colspan="2"|Average (1991–2020) | 14.4 | 7.2 | 3.2 | {{cite web| title=Background Information: North Atlantic Hurricane Season| date=April 9, 2021| url=https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/Background.html| publisher=Climate Prediction Center| location=College Park, Maryland| access-date=December 6, 2022| archive-date=July 24, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724071552/https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/Background.html| url-status=live}} |
align="center" colspan="2"|Record high activity
|30 |15 |7† | ||||
align="center" colspan="2"|Record low activity
|1 |0† |0† | ||||
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align="left"|TSR
|align="left"|December 10, 2024 |15 |7 |3 | ||||
align="left"|CSU
|align="left"|April 3, 2025 |17 |9 |4 | ||||
align="left"|TSR
|align="left"|April 7, 2025 |14 |7 |3 | ||||
align="left"|UA
|align="left"|April 9, 2025 |15 |7 |3 | ||||
align="left"|MU
|align="left"|April 14, 2025 |12–16 |7–9 |3–4 | ||||
align="left"|NCSU
|align="left"|April 15, 2025 |12–15 |6–8 |2–3 | ||||
align="left"|TWC
|align="left"|April 17, 2025 |19 |9 |4 | ||||
align="left"|UPenn
|align="left"|April 23, 2025 |10-18 |N/A |N/A |{{reference needed|date=May 2025}} | ||||
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colspan="6" |* June–November only † Most recent of several such occurrences. (See all) |
In advance of, and during, each hurricane season, several forecasts of hurricane activity are issued by national meteorological services, scientific agencies, and noted hurricane experts. These include forecasters from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Climate Prediction Center, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), the United Kingdom's Met Office, and Colorado State University (CSU). The forecasts include weekly and monthly changes in significant factors that help determine the amount of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes within a particular season.
According to NOAA and CSU, the average hurricane season between 1991 and 2020 contained about 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes (Category 3 and higher), as well as an accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index of 72–111 units. Broadly speaking, ACE is the measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical cyclone multiplied by the length of time it existed. ACE is only calculated for full advisories on specific tropical or subtropical cyclones reaching wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h) or higher. NOAA typically describes a season as above-average, average, or below-average depending on the cumulative ACE index, but the number of tropical storms, hurricanes or major hurricanes can also be considered.
= Pre-season forecasts =
On December 10, 2024, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) released its extended range forecast for the 2025 season, predicting an average season with fifteen named storms, seven hurricanes, and three major hurricanes, but noted that the forecast had higher than normal uncertainty due to environmental factors.
On April 3, 2025, Colorado State University (CSU) released its forecast, which predicts an above-average hurricane season with seventeen named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes, with an ACE index of 155, citing extremely warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures and a weakening La Niña transitioning to a neutral phase by summer. Four days later, TSR issued an updated forecast, again calling for a near-average season reducing the number of tropical storms to fourteen. April 9, the University of Arizona (UA) posted their forecast calling for a fairly normal season featuring fifteen named storms, seven hurricanes, three major hurricanes, and an ACE index of 110 units. On April 15, North Carolina State University predicted a season with 12–15 tropical storms, 6–8 hurricanes, and 2–3 major hurricanes. On April 17, The Weather Company released their outlook anticipating an well above average season with nineteen named systems, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes.https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2025-04-16-hurricane-season-outlook-twc-april
Storm names
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The following list of names will be used for named storms that form in the North Atlantic in 2025.{{Cite web|title=Tropical Cyclone Names|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml|publisher=National Hurricane Center|location=Miami, Florida|access-date=December 13, 2024}} This is the same list used in the 2019 season, with the exception of Dexter, which replaced Dorian.{{cite web |publisher=World Meteorological Organization |title=WMO Hurricane Committee retires tropical cyclone names and ends the use of Greek alphabet |date=March 17, 2021 |url=https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-hurricane-committee-retires-tropical-cyclone-names-and-ends-use-of-greek-alphabet |access-date=December 13, 2024}}
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Season effects
The following is a table which will include all of the storms that form in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. It will include their duration, names, intensities, areas affected, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2025 USD.
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See also
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- Weather of 2025
- Tropical cyclones in 2025
- 2025 Pacific hurricane season
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 2024–25
- Australian region cyclone seasons: 2024–25
- South Pacific cyclone seasons: 2024–25
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References
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External links
- [https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc US National Hurricane Center website]
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