Tropics Update: Hurricane Season Officially Begins! Who Is At Greatest Risk?

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Hurricane season has officially started and we are already off to a roaring start.

[00:00:15]What is up weather enthusiasts? I'm your host Pat's Path Predictor. Let's get right into the weather.

[00:00:24]All right, so here's the situation we have for you ladies and gentlemen.

[00:00:28]Hurricane season has officially started for the North Atlantic. It's already technically started for the Eastern Pacific as well, and we already have some pretty big action possible over there. We have two areas of interest that have some big chances of development that we're going to be going over. We're also going to be taking a quick look at a couple areas that I'm watching in the Atlantic as well. So, we have a lot to talk about today. We have an action-packed video similar to yesterday as well. So, with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to go ahead and dive right into it right here.

[00:01:03]Starting off, we have our two areas of interest. And lo and behold, our first area is already at a 90% chance of development. And the chances in the 48 hours are continuing to increase rather quickly. So, this system is already starting to get its act together. And we're going to go ahead and take a quick gander at it right here.

[00:01:24]A broad area of low pressure located well southwest of the southern tip of Baja California continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

[00:01:32]Environmental conditions appear conducive for development and a tropical depression is expected to form during the middle part of the week while moving westward or west northwestward at 10 to 15 mph across the western p portion of the east Pacific. 40% chance in the next 48 hours, 7 days is 90%. NHC uh whenever they put out the word expected, not likely, not possible, when they say it's expected, you know that's the real deal.

[00:01:59]And later in hurricane season, when you start seeing us more of this starting to fire off and you're starting to see the peak season start to ramp up and when you're starting to see AOI, it's uh with the NHC highlighting that expected tag.

[00:02:12]That is definitely something that you are going to want to pay attention to for sure. And that is definitely something that I am keeping an eye on as this system is starting to get its act together. Likely will develop in the next couple of days or so. But ultimately, it does have a bit of a ceiling as it's going to start moving into uh cooler waters and a few other aspects like sheer and dry air. So ultimately it has a pretty low ceiling.

[00:02:36]When I say low, I mean like 60 65 mph with that. And we'll talk about that when we get to the ensembles. But ultimately, it doesn't have as high of a ceiling as this area of interest does over here. Uh over here, and we'll go ahead and move this, shift this over just a little bit so we can read this out for you guys. An area of low pressure could form offshore of Central America and southern Mexico late this week or over the weekend. Environmental conditions appear favorable for some development of the system thereafter while it moves westward to west northwestward at around 10 milesPH. 30% chance in the next 7 days.

[00:03:13]So that is a slight increase compared to what we saw yesterday. It was at 20% when they just tagged it. Now it's at 30%. Likely will potentially be 40 or even 50% in the coming hours as the the day continues to go on as we're seeing more models. We're seeing more consistency with the models with this as well. So it's definitely something that we're going to need to pay attention to uh in the long term. This looks like it's going to start developing, at least from what I have seen, in the next five to six days. So, this is already being tagged by the NHC, which kind of indicates to me that they have a pretty high amount of confidence that that hey, this system looks like it's going to be potentially uh going uh here. This could potentially impact people and this could potentially be a pretty big system as we continue to watch and we continue to pay attention to it. So, we're going to go ahead and talk about some of the ensembles as well. And then we'll go ahead and go to the operational.

[00:04:09]So, here are our ensemble runs. This is what we got for you guys right here.

[00:04:14]This is our European ensemble. This is the zero Z run for you guys right here.

[00:04:18]We're going to go ahead and jump back to about 4 days out uh just to kind of emphasize this first area of development. Let's go ahead and zoom in on this right here. Taking a quick gander at this. European is definitely kind of interesting with this for sure.

[00:04:31]You have the systems developing kind of or remains relatively weak, but there are some ensembles that do have some power associated with it as well. Uh mainly around this area right here.

[00:04:43]You're looking at a few of these ensembles that that do have potential uh power with it. 996 potentially gets up to 60 to 70 knots. 986 that's hurricane strength already. and a few others that are in there. But the most of the ensembles do remain around tropical storm strength. I mean around I'd say about 50 to 60 mph tropical storm strength. And like I mentioned before, the reason for that is because yes, this system is in optimal conditions now to develop, but it's going to be moving into conditions later that are not going to be optimal for strengthening. So we yes, we may have our first name storm.

[00:05:18]We may have tropical storm Amanda out of this, but it's not really going to do too much according to these models. And unless something completely unexpected happens, we aren't going to be seeing like this massive explosion in intensity like we might be seeing later down the line in the season. So that's what we have 4 days out going ahead and going out to 5 days out. This will be for June 6th. So this will be for Saturday. Uh you do see some more power associated with these ensembles. You're definitely seeing a little bit more pop, but ultimately you are starting to get to the point where you're in the weakening phase according to more of the western uh areas as well. And it looks like they got rid of this western nonsense over here and mainly concentrated over here further to the east for our big area of development. But it does appear right here that you are seeing some pretty at least a moderate tropical storm out of this. And that's definitely something that we're going to need to pay attention to down the line. And then as we go ahead and go to 6 days out just uh to see for curiosity sake. Yeah, you do continue to see that signal going relatively strong but it is starting to taper off. It is starting to weaken over here as it moves through cooler waters and more wind shear. So that's what we have over here for our area right here.

[00:06:32]But this is where things start to get interesting over here in this part of the Pacific right here off the coast of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico. As we continue to take a look at this, already seeing ensembles starting to pop up here and there across a lot of these areas for sure. And you're already seeing an potentially big power ensemble right here. 961 millibars. That is a potential category 2 hurricane uh right there folks according to one ensemble.

[00:07:00]Now that's just one model. What are the rest of them going for? Well, there's already quite a bit of power associated with it. Even some of that power is getting closer to the coast that I have noticed. So that's definitely something that I'm watching and definitely something I am taking rather seriously over here. But look at this 968 971 9996 993,059594 997 already strong tropical storm 2 hurricane uh signals and uh at this current point in time and this is for June 9th. So this is for next Tuesday.

[00:07:35]Then going to next Wednesday, you're definitely seeing more of these ensembles really starting to ramp up and really starting to pick up as it even gets closer to the coast as well. I've kind of found kind of curiously before we were seeing maybe like one ensemble making landfall, but now we're seeing a couple more either making landfall or hugging the coast. This ensemble, this ensemble, this ensemble. We're seeing at least five ensembles compared to the 30 the European puts out of a potential landfall over here. That was a bit different and that's a bit closer to the coast and it's a bit too close for comfort for me and I'm sure for millions that are watching this and wanting to take this kind of seriously. If you have any vacation plans over here, you're going to want to keep a very close eye in the next couple of days to see how this is going to pan out. Regardless, once this system develops, even if it stays out to sea, do not go swimming.

[00:08:26]It's going to cause a ton of rip currents regardless, but I think we're going to see a little bit more than rip currents. We're probably going to see some outer band action based on what I am seeing with these ensembles right here. And just out of curiosity, just to take a quick gander at the GFS even. Yeah, even the GFS is picking up on this. And even the GFS is starting to showcase more of that power ensemble that the European is showing. Eurs was a bit more conservative yesterday than the European. Now we're starting to see a bit more power and a bit closer to uh the European. It's kind of starting to catch up to it, as a matter of fact. And whenever you see the GFS conceding to the European uh model like this and especially if it's a situation where the European is the one that is stronger, that is never a good sign and that is something that we're going to need to watch out for. And just for my own curiosity, what's it looking like 10 days out? Yeah, even still, you're seeing a lot of power and you're seeing a lot more scenarios of potential landfall and potentially bringing more impacts to these regions. So that is something that we're going to want to watch out for and definitely something that I'm going to continue to keep an eye on. So with that being said, let's go ahead and shift over to the operational runs.

[00:09:38]So here are your operational models.

[00:09:41]We're going to go ahead and start by pulling out our trusty dusty European model and we'll go ahead and skip over to about uh 5 days out. So 5 days out for the East Pacific first before we shift over to the Atlantic. You do have the system emerging off the c of Central America starting to slowly organize get its act together and then potentially consolidate as time continues to go on.

[00:10:04]Look at this already, 107 mibar system by June 7th and then starts to kind of wrap around. I will say that at least initially it does start off as a relatively broad over here before it starts to potentially tighten up. So, in order for any major strengthening to happen and I do think there is plenty of time for that as well, it needs to tighten the core up and it needs to tighten itself uh up as well. And it does it pretty quick. It does not pretty quickly but relatively at a decent pace right here. 103 mibar tropical storm. Yes, it's still relatively big and relatively broad, but it is tightening up at a pretty fast rate and you're seeing a lot more convection and a lot more organization with this mon this run as well. And then as we get towards uh 10 days out, 983 mibar system that is really hugging the close the coast of Mexico over here and potentially bringing at least tropical storm impacts. That is already a hurricane right there. 974 millibars.

[00:11:04]potentially a category 2 hurricane into the European as well. That's really hugging the coast and making things a little bit uncomfortable for a lot of people over there. And as we continue to run this model run as well, this system according to the European continues to strengthen already up to down to a 964 millibar system. So that is definitely a pretty interesting situation. Look at how much this has tightened. Before it was relatively broad. Now it is definitely consolidated. It's definitely a lot more compact. It's a relatively small system. It started off as a relatively big tropical storm and now it's a relatively small hurricane which is quite interesting to see how it quickly tightened up like that. And that is definitely something that we are going to want to pay attention to down the line as well as the system starts to continue to strengthen but then drift out to sea over here as it hugged the coast for a pretty long while. How long did it do this for?

[00:12:01]did it from about 10 days out. So that's June 10th all the way until for about 2 and 1 half to 3 days which is not an insignificant amount of time for a tropical cyclone to do that. That's actually a pretty interesting situation uh right there and that could potentially cause a lot of problems for a lot of people down there and that's something that we're going to take more seriously and that is something that we're going to be watching out for down the line. So, that's what we got going on according to the European. We're going to look at the GFS real quickly before we move on to the Atlantic and then after that things will we'll start talking about tropics over there and what we're looking out for there. So, here's our GFS system right here. GFS actually has the system organizing and strengthening pretty quickly off the coast of Nicaragua, moving straight north and actually making landfall in parts of Honduras and El Salvador before emerging off the coast again. Uh right here, the GFS definitely is a bit uh is a bit more huggy cuggy the coasty type of model right here. I know that sounded kind of weird, but ultimately makes landfall and remains relatively weak, but because of the amount of land interaction it has, it does impact a lot of people. I am a bit skeptical with the GFS developing system uh the system like very early on.

[00:13:20]Personally, I think it's going to take a lot more time for it to consolidate, but by and large, you have a situation that we're going to want to watch out for, and we'll continue to keep you update updated on it as the European and the GFS seem to be getting more closer and closer and closer to alignment. So, that's what we have going on according to uh the Euro and the GFS in the Eastern Pacific side. Now, let's go ahead and talk about the Atlantic because I know I'm sure a lot of people are wondering what's going on over there. Well, it's the start of hurricane season. That's for number one. For number two, there are there is an area that I have been watching uh quite uh quite a bit actually and it's this uh low pressure system right here that emerges off the coast of of Georgia and South Carolina and continues to maintain its intensity and remains a pretty interesting low pressure system right here. I am looking at this. I talked about this and I was thinking okay is there a chance for tropical development with this system. At the same time though I will at the same time though this system does appear to emerge and it looks like it does emerges emerge off the coast of the United States as a low not necessarily a tropical low but rather a mid- latitude low. It's a low that it's a low pressure system that is cold cord. Tropical cyclones are warm cord. They take their energy from the atmosphore systems use baroc clinic forcing. So ultimately you do have the system slowly getting its act together. It does look like it's somewhat frontal, but at the same time I at the same time we'll have to watch out uh and keep an eye on this pretty uh quickly especially as it kind of starts to detach from a potential front and from a potential uh height line right here as well. Potentially some subtropical development is possible with this. It's def it's something that I've been keeping an eye on pretty consistently over the last few days and it's definitely something that I'm watching out for and definitely something I am taking kind of seriously at this current point in time. So that's what we have for our area of interest.

[00:15:26]The Europeans definitely been picking up on this as well. If it does form, it's likely going to impact Bermuda and not too much else. But regardless of that, that would be an interesting set to see how this would ultimately go. uh down the line. This is only a few days out, so it's definitely something I'm taking a bit more seriously than I would otherwise. Uh so that's what we have with the European. I'm going to pull up the GFS to see if the GFS is also kind of highlighting it. And yes, it does actually has this system emerging off the United States coast slowly trying to get its act together. The GFS is a bit more disorganized than what the European is advocating for. The European's more consolidated. the GFS is more all over the place just like every 300 hour run the GFS does deliver but ultimately you do have this situation where it kind of remains rather disorganized. So if we do see something out of this you could potentially see subtropical development but it does need to attach detach from the fronts and needs to detach from these height lines right here and the European definitely does do that at some point. The GFS is more scattered and all over the place. So, that's kind of something that I'm watching out for and paying attention to. And the other area I'm watching for as well. And I know it's just the GFS being the GFS at the end of the day, but the GFS did have maybe something uh kind of kind of happening. Not necessarily uh not necessarily organized or anything like that, but maybe some something potentially happening in the Gulf like right here. by the time we get to about uh June 12th, June 13th. That by the time we do get to that though, it is pretty far out. And the GFS curiously does have another low pressure system starting to organize and potentially starting to develop over here off the coast of the United States, off the southeastern coast of the United States.

[00:17:16]So, that's also something I am going to continue to watch out for and keep an eye on. But keep in mind, this is 300 hours out. GFS is historically unreliable and it wants a extratropical cyclone to impact Canada at that point.

[00:17:30]Yeah, that's not going to happen till later in the season. I'm sorry to break it uh to everybody, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen till later in the season according to this. So, that's what we have going on right there. I do want to go ahead and check our our wind shear and our dry air as well just to kind of give an indicator of what our conditions are going to be like for the first couple of weeks of our official hurricane season. And for that we have our windshare that is going to take a second to pull up. There it goes. So you have all this starting to slowly get its act together. But what's the windshare going to look like, Patrick? What's the windshare going to look like? What's the dry air going to look like? Well, here's what we have for our windshare.

[00:18:10]Windshare remains relatively consistent across parts of the MDR and in parts of the subtropics as well. But you do see this whole area as more of a wild card.

[00:18:20]I would say you're definitely seeing lower shear in the Eastern Pacific as well. But this whole wild card area, I call it the wild card because it's been going up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. And at that point, you don't exactly know what's going to happen. It's kind of like the wildcard round of baseball kind of. That's kind of where I kind of emphasize that from.

[00:18:39]So, you do have uh a lot of shear that's kind of starting to move through the main development region. You have some breaks in the shear across parts of the western Atlantic as well, but you do I I know yesterday we did kind of highlight a bit of an area in the MDR where that shear does start to lift a little bit.

[00:18:56]That was very much down the line, but I want to kind of see how consistent it is. And it looks to me that it is remaining pretty consistent. And it does look to me also that the shear across parts of the Atlantic does kind of break a little bit. So that is definitely an interesting tidbit and an interesting development compared to what we've seen previously. Quickly, we're going to go ahead and show the moisture component to all of this as well. Dry air is going to be the main killer for a lot of tropical waves that emerge off the Sahara and the Sahel region as well. But it does appear to me that even that is a little bit of a wild card as well. We're going to continue to keep an eye on the Sahara air layer and an eye on everything as well as we continue to watch and we'll continue to keep you updated on all the basins here on the Pats Path Predictor channel. But with that being said, we're going to go ahead and close the video out right here. I really hope you enjoyed it. Be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel if you are new.

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