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Daily Noon Briefing Highlights – 3 June 2021 Latin America and the Caribbean The 2021 hurricane season in the Latin America and Caribbean region – which officially began on 1 June – is expected to be above average, with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projecting 13-20 named storms in the Atlantic. Between 6 and 10 of those potential storms could become hurricanes, including 3-5 major hurricanes of category 3 strength or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Between 2016 and 2020, some 27.1 million people were affected by storm- and flood-induced disasters in Central...

By Anthony Prassoulis, Information & Advocacy Unit, OCHA ROLAC What is expected to be yet another above-normal Atlantic hurricane season got off to an early start with the formation of subtropical storm Ana on 22 May. This marks the seventh consecutive year that the first-named storm has formed before the official start of the hurricane season on 1 June. While this year’s hurricane season is unlikely to match the record-shattering, frenzied pace of 2020, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects it will still churn out 13-20 named storms in the Atlantic, with 6-10 of t...