By USA Today via Reuters

June 3, 2025
Improvements in weather tracking technology will help states like North Carolina to anticipate dangerous storms during hurricane season. Here’s what to know.
Hurricane meteorologists will be watching this view of the Atlantic Ocean basin carefully in the coming months as the Atlantic hurricane season kicks off on June 1, 2025. Shown is a view from May 29, 2025.

Pull up the National Hurricane Center’s daily map and you’ll see whether tropical cyclone activity is expected within the next seven days as the 2025 hurricane season kicks off for North Carolina and other states along the Atlantic Coast.

Twenty years ago, this 7-day outlook might have been unthinkable, but with improvements in satellites and forecast technology, meteorologists now know more than ever about when and where storms form and move. Thanks to higher resolution satellites, hurricane researchers also know more about the weather patterns that move westward across the Atlantic and Caribbean that could eventually become tropical storms or cyclones.

Known as tropical waves, these areas of low pressure – found in the atmosphere above the surface and not in the ocean – have always moved across the Atlantic and around the globe.

Forecasters are watching these waves more closely than ever and understand more about how some of them become the seeds of tropical storms and hurricanes, said Kelly Núñez Ocasio, assistant professor in the atmospheric sciences department at Texas A&M University.
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