Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) anticipate a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2023. This is principally due to the likely development of the El Niño weather phenomenon.

However, “Given the conflicting signals between a potentially robust El Niño and an anomalously warm tropical and subtropical Atlantic, the team stresses that there is more uncertainty than normal with this outlook,” according to the CSU report released on Thursday (April 13).

The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team is predicting 13 named storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. Of those, researchers expect six to become hurricanes and two to reach major hurricane strength with sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or...