The National Hurricane Center 's second tropical outlook for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is out. No tropical cyclone activity is expected over the next seven days. This hurricane season is expected to be very active, and forecasters are urging residents to prepare now, not when a storm is approaching.

Digging deeper into CSU’s forecast, the chance of a major hurricane hitting the Delta region becomes clearer. There is a 42% chance of a Category 3, 4 or 5 storm along the Gulf Coast, from the Florida panhandle to Brownsville, Texas. Records show the chance of a major storm in the region between 1880 and 2020 to have been 27%.

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.​The first tropical storm of 2024 in the Western Hemisphere could form sometime through early next week off the coast of Mexico,

The 2024 eastern Pacific hurricane season began on May 15 and runs through November 30. In 2023, an El Nino pattern produced 17 named storms, ten hurricanes and eight major cyclones in the basin. Two of the major hurricanes – Dora and Otis – were retired for their connections to mass devastation in Hawaii and southwestern Mexico.

South Florida weather coverage from WPBF 25 News. La Lina has the opposite effect on the Eastern Pacific Hurricane season by lowering tropical activity by creat