Posted on 06/01/2026 6:22:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins today, and while forecasters expect a quieter-than-average year, experts say now is the time to make sure your family is prepared.
Forecasters are predicting between eight and 14 named storms this season, including three to six hurricanes and one to three major hurricanes. Despite the lower outlook, meteorologists continue to stress that it only takes one storm to have a major impact.
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Let the hurricane fear porn begin!
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It’s always the opposite of what the “experts” predict.
I’m panicking as fast as I can.
The amazing thing about this article is that it doesn’t mention Global Warming once. Maybe the reporter is new and doesn’t yet realize that she has to work that into any weather story if she wants to advance her career.
Climate change, not global warming. They know they’ve totally overused global warming, so now it’s climate change we’re to be frightened of.
Me too.....I now consider The Weather Channel more as entertainment than accurate Weather reporting.
This article is from a local station for the people who actually have to live through the hurricane, while there is a lot of global warming hype tied to them now nationally, for those who experience them, they are still America’s most devastating natural threat, they are awesome, I was born and raised in Houston.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!
Houston floods even with a normal rainstorm.
Best hurricane precautions, ether have a part time or live fulltime 200 miles inland not on a valley floor. Stop building mansions to ego on the coast, build cheap cinder block and steel roof housing designed to be quickly rehabbed when your town is struck by a storm. The rest of us have tired of your insurance claims mr beach shorts.
That it does, but hurricanes are far more than flooded city streets.
They are, yes. Great devastation and not fun to live through.
This past Saturday in NH I woke up to the wind blowing and rain. It was 37 degrees. My heat had kicked on.
I am just north of the MA border in southern NH.
My daughter about 2 miles away had lost power. I eventually did a 11am. Got it back at 5pm.
On Mount Washington they got 6” of SNOW.
There were several people posting videos of skiing that day.
I am back to wearing a flannel shirt, jeans, a vest and boots. I could use some CLIMATE CHANGE.
Blame Trump
Many of these homeowners are now self insured. Meaning, instead of paying that much to State Farm or Allstate they put the premium in a savings account. Just repair the house after the next hurricane.
Down in the Caribbean the houses are built out of Concrete and Cinder blocks. The roofing tiles are concrete. They all have metal shutters on the buildings. They are built to withstand anything up to a category 5 storm. Eventually, all the houses built there will be constructed like a bomb proof fortress.
I’ve lived in Florida since 1969.....as you can imagine, I’ve seen my share of hurricanes.
One of the things about the new move-ins is that they rarely believe what hurricanes really are and can do, they are also the most affected by years where the warnings don’t pan out, the newcomers come to think of hurricanes as sort of an over blown myth of what are just occasional storms.
Personally I loved hurricanes, but that was as a kid and then as a renter with junk cars, owning a home with a couple of new cars in the driveway would put a whole different perspective on it, an infant or two can’t help the mood either.
With climate change, long before SUVs were ever thought of, it melted and formed a huge lake.
I asked my neighbor, a well driller, how far down to bedrock here.
He said about 178 feet through clay and glacial boulders that had been deposited on the lake bottom.
And yes, our heat has been on most nights and we've had to cover our peonies to protect them from the frost.
There’s a lot of natural hazards in Florida nobody tells these interlopers.
Hurricanes have the nasty habit of spawning tornadoes for one.
Hurricane season, like UF( season, depends on whether there are ANY, and whether they visit YOU.
AND that is up to God.
Go to confession.
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