All is quiet in the tropics for Memorial Day weekend − just days before the start of hurricane season.
According to the Saturday, May 23, 2026, weather advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, tropical cyclone activity was not expected during the next 7 days. The hurricane center resumed its tropics advisories May 15.
In 2025, no storms made landfall in the U.S. during hurricane season, but it was an active one.
Next month marks the beginning of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Atlantic hurricane season is from June 1 to Nov. 30 every year, with the most activity between August and October. Should a weather system develop into a tropical storm, the first system would be named Arthur, which tops the list of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season names (see below).
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Keep reading for information about tropical storm activity for Saturday, May 23, 2026.
National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, forecast on tropical activity: Is there a tropical storm or hurricane now?
According to the Saturday, May 23, 2026, tropical outlook from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, there are no active systems churning in the open waters of the North Atlantic. The graphic above automatically updates with the most recent location for any or all disturbances.
The Atlantic basin consists of the northern Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America. NOAA changed its naming convention for the Gulf of Mexico after the U.S. Geological Survey changed the name on U.S. maps per President Trump’s order.
The Saturday, May 23, tropical weather discussion from the National Hurricane Center states:
The Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico: The Atlantic ridge extends across Florida into the Gulf region. This system supports gentle to moderate E to SE winds, with the exception of moderate to fresh NE to E winds to the N and W of the Yucatan Peninsula. Seas are 3 to 4 feet with these winds, and 1 to 3 feet elsewhere. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are between the western Florida Panhandle and SE Louisiana, including nearby waters.
In the Caribbean Sea: The pressure gradient between high pressure N of the region and the Colombia Low supports fresh to strong trades in the south-central Caribbean, where seas are 7 to 9 feet. Another area of fresh to strong trade winds is noted, per scatterometer data, over the eastern Caribbean with seas of 5 to 7 feet. Moderate to fresh winds dominate the remainder of the east and central portions of the basin as well as the Gulf of Honduras with seas of 4 to 6 feet. Gentle to moderate winds and 3 to 5 foot seas prevail elsewhere, except in the lee of Cuba where slight seas are noted. A few showers and thunderstorms are currently affecting parts of Cuba, the area between Cuba and Jamaica, and Haiti, including adjacent waters. Pockets of low-level moisture, embedded in the trade wind flow, are affecting the remainder of the region generating isolated to scattered passing showers.
In the Atlantic Ocean: A surface trough, remnants of an old frontal boundary, is analyzed. Mainly low clouds are near the trough axis. High pressure centered east of Bermuda dominates the remainder of the forecast region. Under this weather pattern, fresh to strong northerly winds and seas of 5 to 7 feet are observed between the Canary Islands. Similar wind speeds are blowing across the Cabo Verde Islands and regional waters, where seas are in the 6 to 8 foot range. Fresh to locally strong trades and moderate seas dominate the remainder of the tropical Atlantic. A recent scatterometer satellite pass show that winds are pulsing to strong force off northern Hispaniola creating moderate to locally rough seas. Elsewhere, a gentle to moderate anticyclonic flow is noted with moderate seas.
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What are the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season names? Did your name make the hurricane season names list?
Since 1953, the National Hurricane Center has released a list of names in alphabetical order for Atlantic tropical storms before each season begins, which it recycles every six years. It retires names of storms that are excessively deadly or costly, if it would be insensitive or inappropriate to use them again. These are the 2026 Atlantic tropical cyclone names:
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Contributing: Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY Network-Florida
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This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Tropics is quiet as Florida braces for start of 2026 hurricane season
Reporting by Jennifer Sangalang, USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida / Fort Myers News-Press
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