The hurricane season is now officially underway and the Weather Network thinks a weather phenomenon will play a role in tropical storm activity.
Meteorologist Kelly Sonnenburg says La Nina will once again be a factor for the third summer in a row.
“A La Nina season means for people along the Atlantic coast, up the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. and into parts of the Maritimes and Newfoundland, a more heightened Atlantic hurricane season,” she notes.
“It doesn’t necessarily guarantee that we are going to be seeing more landfalling hurricanes or tropical systems. It just means the probability is there that we could possibly be seeing these storms make landfall.”
Sonnenburg says another factor this year is less wind shear in the atmosphere over where tropical storms form.
She adds less wind shear means storms will have a better chance to keep their shape and continue developing.
