Berapa perkiraan jumlah badai Atlantik yang diberi nama untuk tahun 2026?

Weather scientists study things like ocean water temperature and wind patterns months before hurricane season starts, using that information to estimate how many storms are likely to form. For 2026, forecasters predicted somewhere between 8 and 14 named Atlantic storms, meaning storms strong enough to earn an official name.

Predicting exactly one storm or over one hundred storms would be wildly off from how hurricane seasons actually behave — a typical Atlantic season produces more than one storm but nowhere near a hundred, so real forecasts always fall in a moderate range like the one predicted for 2026.

Scientists get better at these predictions every year by comparing past forecasts to what actually happened, slowly improving how well they can read ocean and wind clues months in advance.