Hurricane season now envisioned ‘well below normal’


The projected path of Hurricane Idalia is shown on a screen with FDOT camera views of I-75 in the Special Operations Center at Marion County Fire Rescue Operations in Ocala on Aug. 29, 2023. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette file photo]

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Posted July 8, 2026 | By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida

Storm forecasters have further downgraded predictions a little more than a month into the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, which has so far produced a single named tropical system. For a season initially anticipated to be “somewhat below-normal,” Colorado State University researchers on July 8 reduced their projections for the number of named systems and the […]

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