How Ready Are You?

National Hurricane Prevention Week is May 3 - 9. During this observance, the South Florida Postal Blog will feature a daily segment on how you and your family can get ready for the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which officially begins on June 1.

Colorado State University researchers forecast that the 2020 Atlantic basin hurricane season will experience above-normal activity.

The team predicts that the Atlantic basin will experience 16 named tropical storms this year. That same region usually experiences 12.1 storms. The team also forecasts the Atlantic will experience eight hurricanes (the average is 6.4 per year), 35 hurricane days (as opposed to the average of 24.2) and four major hurricanes (as opposed to 2.7).

The probability of at least one major hurricane (category 3, 4 or 5) making landfall somewhere along the continental U.S. coastline this year is 69% (the average last century was 52%). 

The U.S. East Coast, including Florida, has a 45% chance of experiencing a major hurricane (last century’s average was 31%).

The Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville, Texas, has a 44% chance of experiencing a major hurricane in 2020, compared to a 30% chance last century. 

There is a 58% chance of at least one major hurricane tracking into the Caribbean. Last century, the average was 42%.