Researchers estimate that total Atlantic hurricane activity in 2026 will amount to approximately 40 percent of the 1991-2020 average. By comparison, activity during the 2025 season reached approximately 105 percent of the historical average.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring three areas in the Atlantic for potential tropical development in what has been a quiet start to the 2026 hurricane season.

The National Hurricane Center has continued to up its odds that a tropical wave – an area of disturbed weather with a ripple in its wind field at around 10,000 feet up, resembling an ocean wave – will develop into a tropical depression or named storm later this week.

El Niño has been hitting the snooze button on Atlantic hurricane season for weeks, but at least one potential tropical troublemaker has a chance to shake the season out of its slumber.

A developing system in the Atlantic could become Cristobal in the next few days. Its future track and intensity are currently uncertain.

It might bring much-needed rain to Puerto Rico.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is highlighting an area in the tropical Atlantic for potential tropical development this week as the peak of hurricane season is just one week away. But any system that forms in the Central Atlantic will have to contend with the high wind shear in the Caribbean if it moves west.

Hurricane forecasters are monitoring three separate disturbances in the Atlantic that could develop further over the next several days.