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Sun­day, June 1 marked the of­fi­cial start of the 2025 At­lantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son. The Caribbean re­gion is ex­pect­ed to see an above-av­er­age sea­son, based on fore­casts from rep­utable sources such as the Unit­ed States Na­tion­al Ocean­ic and At­mos­pher­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NOAA).

Ac­cord­ing to NOAA’s fore­cast is­sued on May 22, 13 to 19 named storms are like­ly, with six to ten of those be­com­ing hur­ri­canes, in­clud­ing three to five ma­jor hur­ri­canes.

NOAA at­trib­uted the high ac­tiv­i­ty to “warmer than av­er­age ocean tem­per­a­tures, fore­casts for weak wind shear, and the po­ten­tial for high­er ac­tiv­i­ty from the West African Mon­soon, a pri­ma­ry start­ing point for At­lantic hur­ri­canes.”