The updated forecast has also lowered the chances of a hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast \u2013 from Brownsville, Texas, to the Florida Panhandle. In June, the forecast had a 20% chance of a hurricane making landfall in the region. The updated forecast now calls for a 10% chance.<\/p>\n
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Hurricane evacuation sign on northbound I-45 in League City, Texas, in 2007. (Nick de la Torre\/Houston Chronicle \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
CSU forecasters cited an intensifying El Ni\u00f1o as one of the factors for the adjustment.<\/p>\n
“We anticipate the powerful El Ni\u00f1o being the dominant factor for the upcoming hurricane season, driving high levels of tropical Atlantic vertical wind shear,” forecasters wrote in Wednesday\u2019s update.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
So far, there has only been one named storm this year. Tropical Storm Arthur<\/a> impacted the Texas coast in June.<\/p>\n According to the National Hurricane Center, no tropical activity is expected in the Atlantic for at least the next week.<\/p>\n The next named storm would be Bertha, followed by Cristobal and Dolly.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from Colorado State University and the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n Weather<\/a>Texas<\/a>Hurricanes<\/a>Tropical<\/a>Tropical Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – One of the most-watched hurricane forecasts has been updated for the remainder of the 2026 Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,16973,120011,16221,216,393,172],"class_list":["post-366086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-hurricanes","tag-tropical","tag-tropical-weather","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_9095.jpg\")
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