Atlantic hurricane season begins
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is part of the annual tropical cyclone season in the Northern Hemisphere. This season officially began on June 1, 2021, and ends on November 30, 2021. That said the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) - the official lead hurricane agency for the Atlantic Basin - began to issue regular Tropical Weather Outlooks on May 15 this year, two weeks earlier than it has ever done in the past. This change was implemented in light of the fact that a number of named storms had formed in the Atlantic Ocean prior to the official start of the season in each of the preceding six seasons.
