2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season To Potentially Be Suppressed As El Niño Expected To Arrive In Summer

2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season To Potentially Be Suppressed As El Niño Expected To Arrive In Summer

The most recent climate outlook from NOAA indicates that an El Niño pattern is likely to develop in the middle of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.

La Niña nearly dead, brewing El Niño to arrive during peak hurricane season

MIAMI – The latest climate forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that an El Niño climate pattern is on track to arrive midway through hurricane season — a pattern that has historically suppressed hurricane and other tropical development in the Atlantic Ocean.WHAT ARE EL NINO AND LA NINA CLIMATE PATTERNS?El Niño is one of three climatological phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that describe …