The first tropical storm of the 2025 season, Andrea, has formed.  While this storm doesn’t appear likely to impact the US at this time, it is a reminder that we ARE in Hurricane Season.

The last hurricane to make landfall in New England was 34 years ago – Hurricane Bob.  Averages indicate that our area has a hurricane landfall every 11.5 years, so we are very much overdue for one.  For New England, our season typically runs from mid-August thru September, but you never know.

NOAA is predicting a busier that usual season this year. Part of their reasoning has to do with much higher than normal sea temperatures off the Atlantic Coast.  Southern New England is usually protected by a very cold band of water to our South that tends to rapidly weaken hurricanes into tropical storms.  This year, that area of the sea is running warmer than normal as well.

There is a decent discussion of the 2025 season on the Accuweather website. A more technical discussion of tropical weather can be found at Tropical Tidbits.

No matter what, the time to get your preparations done is now, while the weather isn’t blowing a stink.