And while Beryl is making its way through Mexico, there's not likely to be another major storm in the immediate future. That's because, as Gordon explained, there's something called a cool wake after a storm like that. But he added that while it's not likely, you still shouldn't let your guard down.
Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist
"It's difficult to say, we do know that after any major hurricane, we have something that we call a cool wake because the hurricane itself stirs up the ocean waters allowing mixing as we call it so the cool waters from below will mix with the warmer waters from above it so it cools down a bit so you don't see one major hurricane right behind the other. That's not to say it can't occur but there is a factor call that, like I said, a cooling that occurs because of a mixing of the waters. Having said that though, we know that the Caribbean and the Atlantic and ominously warm, they're warming than normal so certainly we do know that there is potential for more systems to come our way and we need to be on the alert. It all depends on how much depth that warmth extends to and I don't know the exact number but based on the figure we are seeing in terms of the surface, it is quite likely that the depth of the warm water extends to a significant level, which means that the mixing will not have a significant impact so certainly, the long and short answer is we need to be prepared. There could be more systems coming behind and as we already know we are expecting a very active 2024 hurricane season."
