A new forecast from researchers at Colorado State University predicts the 2025 hurricane season will be busier than an average year.

Last year featured back-to-back catastrophic impacts from Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The upcoming season could be just as active.

Colorado State University, a school renowned for its hurricane research, said it expects “above-normal” tropical activity this year. The early-season prediction, released Thursday, stems from warm sea-surface temperatures, and the potential for conditions that kindle tropical activity.

Last year was a busy hurricane season with storm after storm racing across the Caribbean, bringing multiple storms ashore in Florida, ravaging rains to the Carolina mountains and strong winds to downtown Houston; another robust season is likely to occur in the Atlantic in 2025.

The 2025 hurricane season is shaping up to be intense, with forecasters at Colorado State University predicting above-normal activity.

It will be a good idea to stay tuned into the latest hurricane forecasts, as signs suggest this could be an active year.

The official start of hurricane season is less than 60 days away. The ‘A’-named storm will be here before you know it! (Spoiler alert: it’s Andrea.)

When a storm is particularly powerful, destructive or deadly, the name is “retired” from the rotating list, meaning it will never be used again.

After an extremely active and deadly 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, the World Meteorological Organization is retiring the names of three particularly devastating storms that broke records and made history: Beryl, Helene and Milton.