NOAA Releases Below-Average Hurricane Season Outlook
May 21, 2026Updated: May 21, 2026, 1:51 pm EDTPublished: May 21, 2026, 1:45 pm EDT

NOAA released its official outlook for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and it's below average across the board. One big contributor to this forecast is the super El Niño that is expected during the season, similar to what we saw in 2015. How many named storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes are they expecting? Meteorologist Caitlin Kaiser breaks it down here.