Could the Atlantic hurricane season start date be moved up to May 15 soon?
Since 1965, the Atlantic hurricane season has been defined to be between June 1 and November 30. That could change soon if the recent trend of pre-season Atlantic tropical cyclone activity continues. The month of May has had 10 subtropical or tropical cyclone formations since 2007, 9 of which became named storms. None of these storms have reached hurricane strength, and there has not been a May hurricane recorded in the Atlantic basin since Alma in 1970. Since 2012, 7…