2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predictions. We anticipate that la niña conditions will develop by the peak of the atlantic hurricane season, likely resulting in reduced levels of tropical atlantic vertical wind shear. We have maintained our forecast for an extremely active atlantic hurricane season in 2024.

 — forecasters expect this year’s storm activity to generate an ace of about 210, which would place 2024 near the upper end of all hurricane seasons since records began in 1851. We anticipate that la niña conditions will develop by the peak of the atlantic hurricane season, likely resulting in reduced levels of tropical atlantic vertical wind shear.