There has not been a named storm so far in 2025 in the Atlantic. Hurricane watchers think the next week will be quiet as well. The eastern Pacific, on the flip side, has had three named storms so far, including one hurricane. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season lasts until Nov. 30.

The National Hurricane Center is “fully staffed” and any suggestion that the Trump administration fired meteorologists at the National Weather Service is “fake news,” “preposterous and silly,” Commerce Sec.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional committee that the US National Hurricane Center was fully staffed even though key positions are going unfilled as hurricane season begins.

All forecast models have some kind of bias, so AI is being used to help correct them to give forecasters a more accurate idea of where a tropical system might go.

The forecast track for Hurricane Barbara in the Eastern Pacific. Two tropical systems are intensifying in the Eastern Pacific, with one now officially the first hurricane of the season, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

So far, the Eastern Pacific basin has already hosted three named storms and the first official hurricane of the 2025 season. The season kicked off with Tropical Storm Alvin with f

With the hurricane season now underway, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is continuing the trend from last year by predicting another above-average Atlantic hurricane season.