It took eleven days of hurricane season to get out first tropical low of the year. While this trough is not a threat to us, the season is just getting started.
"Don't be fooled by the slow start to this hurricane season," said LSU climatologist Barry Keim.
Keim says recent years have had named storms pretty early, before June, even, and it has been a while since we've gone this long before seeing a tropical weather system develop.
"This is the slowest start since about 2014, so about ten years," he said.
Keim says the signs still point to a lot of late-season development.
"Despite the slow start, we're still expecting a crazy year. All the worst-case variables seem to be in place to produce a banner hurricane season," said Keim, including La Niña, El Niño's opposite that leads to favorable conditions for a busy Atlantic storm season.
