{"id":227382,"date":"2026-04-11T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:09:38","slug":"csu-forecasts-2026-atlantic-hurricane-activity-will-be-somewhat-below-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227382\/","title":{"rendered":"CSU forecasts 2026 Atlantic hurricane activity will be &#8216;somewhat below-normal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State University (CSU) predicts the 2026 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have &#8220;somewhat below-normal activity,&#8221; according to their annual forecast released Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>CSU forecasts 13 named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes for the upcoming 2026 hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>Read CSU\u2019s full 2026 hurricane season forecast <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tropical.colostate.edu\/forecasting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the forecast predicted 17 named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes. The 2025 season ended with 13 named storms, five hurricanes, and four major hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>CSU said real-time estimates of global tropical cyclone activity are calculated from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/hurricanes.ral.ucar.edu\/repository\/data\/bdecks_open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archived b-decks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Multiple Hillsborough County schools are closing down in 2027<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 reporter Jada Williams has the latest on how Hillsborough County Public Schools is planning major student reassignments and school closures for the 2027-28 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Hillsborough County schools are closing down in 2027; parents aren&#8217;t on board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado State University (CSU) predicts the 2026 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have &#8220;somewhat below-normal activity,&#8221; according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102362,205,5937,1846,12524,5741,135,5910,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-227382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-hurricane-forecast","tag-abc-action-news","tag-colorado-state-university","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-forecast","tag-national-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}