Tropical activity in the Atlantic may start to ramp up soon as hurricane season prepares to shift into a higher gear.

The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on June 1, but historically, there’s a noticeable uptick in storms around the start of August. The climatological peak of the season is Sept. 10.

So far this year, three tropical storms have developed. Andrea was short-lived, spinning over the open Atlantic in mid-June. Barry became the first to impact land, moving into Mexico on June 29. Most recently, Chantal made landfall in South Carolina on July 6 and caused deadly flooding.

"The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season has been off to a relatively fast start so far, with three named storms in the basin," AccuWeather Meteorologist Elizabeth Danco said. "The historical averag

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