The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, predicting a strong likelihood of an above-normal level of activity. The season,

The preseason forecast is just the 30,000-foot view of what’s likely. Here’s what forecasters will be watching for over the weeks and months ahead.

An average of 3.5 storms typically would have formed by now, but there have been no named tropical cyclones in this hemisphere so far.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the first Tropical Wave of the 2025 Hurricane Season moved off Africa Sunday afternoon. Tropical development is not expected. Hurricane Season begins June 1.

Just after sunrise and again before sunset each day, a white balloon, nearly as tall as a person, floats into the Ruskin sky. A little weather instrument dangles from it, collecting data as the balloon drifts up, up, up into the atmosphere collecting data.

Here's what you might expect for summer 2025, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration and the Old Farmer's Almanac.