Atlantic Hurricane Season Threatens Early Start as Storm Brews

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The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1, but nature often ignores humanity’s best attempts to corral it with the calendar.

There’s a 40 percent chance the Atlantic may churn out the season’s first storm along the U.S. East Coast by May 10, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. If a storm forms, it will likely be a subtropical system, a sort of hybrid between a regular storm and a true tropical one.