2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season

[Kevin Reilly]

4 hours ago, vortex95 said:

Andrew in Aug 1992 was among the "luckiest" intense hurricanes I have seen.  It struggled for days N of the Caribbean due to an upper low.  In fact, one could argue it actually lost its sfc circulation for a time as recon found only 1015 mb pressure!  FL winds were still near hurricane-force though due to gradient from high pressure to the N, so they keep it going.

But then the upper low moved away to the SW and a strong 500 mb high built due N, resulting in nearly ideal conditions, and we saw what happened.

1992 was a "quiet" hurricane season overall, but reanalysis has shown 4-5 systems that were at least of min TS strength (two hurricanes) that were never declared operationally.  They will all likely get added once the reanalysis project reaches this year.
 

1992 was also a time where the tropics in the Pacific was very active.  Iniki hit the northwest Hawaiian Islands that year not too much different than this year so far.  However, looks like even more hurricane activity could affect the Hawaiian Islands in the coming two weeks. 

[vortex95]

25 minutes ago, Kevin Reilly said:

1992 was also a time where the tropics in the Pacific was very active.  Iniki hit the northwest Hawaiian Islands that year not too much different than this year so far.  However, looks like even more hurricane activity could affect the Hawaiian Islands in the coming two weeks. 

Several days after Andrew, Typhoon Omar made a direct hit on Guam. taking out the operation of JTWC (which was based on Guam at the time).  NHC was almost taken out by Andrew, and the following month, CPHC in Honolulu narrowly adverted Iniki.  The E/CPAC had 27 NS in 1992, the record for this basin.  Quite a year!