WEATHER.WATCH presents

Hurricane Week 2026

Jennifer Watson goes live with chasers, tropical-weather voices, and storm storytellers as hurricane season opens and the road to the Hurricane Party in Bay Saint Louis begins.

June 1Official start of hurricane season
EP.01Jordan Hall and StormCat5 kickoff
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EP.01 | Official kickoff of Hurricane Season 2026

Hurricane season officially starts June 1, 2026. Jennifer Watson sits down with Jordan Hall and Brady Harris, known as StormCat5, to talk forecasts, tropical trends, El Nino and La Nina, hurricane naming history, and the weird joy of geeking out over the tropics.

Forecast desk and field voices

The kickoff guest desk.

Hurricane Week works because it mixes the meteorologist's setup, the chaser's field read, and the community voices who live inside tropical season every year.

HostWEATHER.WATCH

Jennifer Watson

Emmy Award-winning meteorologist and WEATHER.WATCH host leading the Hurricane Week live conversations, quick explainers, and forecast context.

GuestJordan Hall

Jordan Hall

International storm chaser, multimedia journalist, drone pilot, and field creator bringing the chaser's view of landfalls, tropical impacts, and storm-season psychology.

GuestStormCat5

Brady Harris

Meteorologist for Storm Front Freaks and Team Dominator, known online as StormCat5, bringing tropical analysis, livestream energy, and weather-community context.

Episode archive

Hurricane Week lives here.

As Jennifer's live episodes roll out, this page becomes the single place to follow the season kickoff, guest table, and Bay Saint Louis run-up.

Coming up
Road to the Hurricane Party: Bay Saint Louis setup

Jennifer tracks the Gulf Coast storyline, the people heading to Bay Saint Louis, and what the opening weeks of the season could mean for the northern Gulf.

Coming up
Chasers, surge, and the landfall decision

A field-focused episode on how chasers choose a target, what coastal residents need to understand, and how surge turns a forecast into a lived event.

Future guest lane
Josh Morgerman and the hurricane obsessive's map

A storm-season conversation built around intercept strategy, historic landfalls, chase discipline, and the strange pull of the tropics.

Road to the Hurricane Party

Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi becomes the live-season destination.

Upcoming Hurricane Week episodes can build toward the Hurricane Party in Bay Saint Louis: a Gulf Coast gathering point for storm talk, field stories, live podcast hits, local culture, and the full WEATHER.WATCH hurricane-season mood.

Forecast desk
Gulf Coast
Bay Saint Louis
A simple visual lane for the upcoming live episodes: forecast setup, Gulf Coast context, and Bay Saint Louis as the party endpoint.