MACON, Ga. — The 2025 hurricane season began on June 1st for the Atlantic, and has so far been off to a quiet start. The National Hurricane Center has only watched one area of potential development off of the eastern coast of the United States, and this region did not come to fruition.

On today's edition of Tracking the Tropics, we'll take a look at how the Hurricane Hunters help keep us safe from the sky as they fly into oncoming storms. Watch live on WFLA.com at 12:30 p.m. ET!

The National Hurricane Center is “fully staffed” and any suggestion that the Trump administration fired meteorologists at the National Weather Service is “fake news,” “preposterous and silly,” Commerce Sec.

All forecast models have some kind of bias, so AI is being used to help correct them to give forecasters a more accurate idea of where a tropical system might go.

With the hurricane season now underway, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is continuing the trend from last year by predicting another above-average Atlantic hurricane season.

The first hurricane of the 2025 season has formed, and a second is close behind. Here's where they could be heading.

Tropical Storm Barbara was strengthening off Mexico's Pacific coast and could become a hurricane Monday, forecasters said. Barbara was centered about 235 miles (375 kilometers) west-southwest of the touristic port of Zihuatanejo in Guerrero state late Sunday,