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Daily tropical updates from the NHC have begun as 2025 hurricane season nears

Tropics look quiet for the next 7 days, National Hurricane Center says

National Hurricane Center

By: Scott Sutton

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MIAMI — Hurricane season is still a few weeks away, but daily forecasts from the National Hurricane Center have already started.

The NHC on Thursday released its first tropical outlook forecast for the 2025 hurricane season.

The good thing is that the tropics look quiet for the next seven days.

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The tropical weather outlook is issued from May 15 through Nov. 30 each year. The times they are issued are 2 a.m., 8 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. More advisories are issued at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. if a named storm forms.

Click here to read the full tropical weather discussion issued by the NHC for Thursday.

Experts at Colorado State University released their annual Atlantic hurricane season forecast last month, predicting that we could see an "above-normal" season again.

The first named storm of the 2025 hurricane season will be Andrea.

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