Last month I wrote a piece about hurricanes where I explain in details about hurricane activity - lack of activity rather - in the area. Now that hurricane season started yesterday the first of June people become interested in the topic as well. Due to the amount of requests I receive daily on this website regarding information on hurricane activity in Aruba, I thought it is a good idea to write once more about this topic.

Hurricane Season

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 31st. Hurricanes are unpredictable and the dates for the so called ‘hurricane season’ were set by man. Therefore the dates are a mere indication as to when hurricanes can be expected.

There are two hot zone paths of hurricanes, or hurricane alley. One that makes final land fall in Mexico and another that makes final land fall in the coastal region of Southern United States.

The Mexican-path

The storms that aim Mexico as the final destination start in the hot waters of the Atlantic Ocean, where they slowly move towards a western path, towards the Caribbean. The storm generally tends to brush the higher Antilles islands on its western path. Eventually the storm curls north-western and reaches Mexico.

The Southern United States-path

This is a more common and devastating path of the storms during hurricane seasons. There are more landmasses or island nations on this path. After the storm is created in the Atlantic it moves west, north-west, slowly passing over some islands in the Northern Caribbean before making land fall in Florida (most of the time).

Unpredictable

I don’t need to tell you how unpredictable hurricanes are. There is very modern science, but the science only tells us where it thinks the storm is starting and where it thinks the storm is going.

Despite the fact that Aruba hasn’t had a storm hitting the island head on, there were still a few scares. For that simple reason Aruba is always vigilant when it comes to hurricane season.

Chances that you would have to cancel your travel plans to Aruba due to hurricanes are almost non-existent. As a matter of fact, sometimes Aruba receives additional business from other islands which were hit by hurricanes and couldn’t offer the service to the visitors. People then diverts to Aruba.

Last month I wrote ‘Hurricane Season Is Upon Us‘ which I recommend for some additional information in regards to storms in Aruba.

I always end these posts by telling that I’m no meteorologist and would like to refer to you to the czars of hurricanes: US’ National Hurricane Center.