There are an estimated four storms which could pass near T&T for the hurricane season. Climatologist Kenneth Kerr said this in a release to the media on the hurricane and tropical storm activity area of interest for T&T.
That area of interest lies to the east of T&T and south of 15 degrees north latitude.
This is the area where tropical storms tend to pose a threat to the country and is the area of interest where the T&T Met Service is most concerned with as it relates to the hurricane season.
According to Kerr, in a typical hurricane season, there are three named storms forming in this area.
The largest number of storms forming in this area since 1963 occurred in 2010 when there were ten named storms.
For the 2017 hurricane season, the Met Office predicts a 68 per cent chance for above normal tropical storm activity in the area of interest with the possibility of three to six named storms.
The Met Office, however, said the most likely number was four, of which at least one can become a hurricane.
“This prediction says nothing about land falling storms but urges all to prepare adequately regardless of predictions of above or below normal seasonal activity because it only takes one storm to make landfall for the season to be an active one.”
