There are some hints in long-range models as to when we may see the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season's first storm, Andrea. Here's when that could happen, where it might form and historical perspective.

An area west of Mexico is being monitored for a possible tropical storm or hurricane next week, as a storm-sparking pulse moves across the Pacific Ocean.

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. The first storm of the season will be Andrea. Other names on the list, Dexter and Jerry, might make you think of popular TV shows “Dexter” and “Seinfeld.” For Disney fans, Wendy and Pablo could stir nostalgia for “Peter Pan” and “Lizzie McGuire.”

For only the sixth time since 1950, no tropical cyclones have formed anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere so far this year.

If it becomes a named system, it would be called Alvin – the first named tropical cyclone anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere this year.

Typically, hurricane season averages 14 named storms including seven hurricanes, three of them major, defined as Category 3 or stronger, with winds of 111 mph or higher. NOAA forecast 13 to 19 total named storms,

As the Atlantic hurricane season is about to start, a senior Environment Canada meteorologist says experts are predicting another active year for tropical storms.