Most of the above-average activity will occur during the peak months of the season: August– October.

The season often features a) at least eleven tropical storms, b) seven or more of which typically become hurricanes, and c) three or more of which become major hurricanes.

Overall activity is very high. Overall activity includes measures of storm duration and intensity, as well as storm numbers, hurricane numbers, etc.

Many of the storms are expected to develop over the tropical Atlantic, and then move westward toward the Caribbean Islands or the United States, thereby putting coastal areas at an increased risk of experiencing a tropical storm or hurricane. In active years the Caribbean Islands and the United States each experience an average of 2-3 hurricane strikes. For the Caribbean Islands, this frequency of hurricane landfall is much larger than that which is observed in inactive years.

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