Updated at 9:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025

Tropical Storm Fernand is heading into the North Atlantic, where it will die in a day or so. Otherwise, the Atlantic is quiet.

Around next Saturday, a disturbance might move off Africa, but dry air, hostile upper winds and extra-strong high pressure across the tropical belt are currently forecast to prohibit much development.

Recall that before the busy stretch in the Atlantic that included giant Hurricane Erin, the Eastern Pacific was busy, and before that there was one storm after the other in the Central Pacific south of Hawaii. The conducive-for-development bubble progressed from the Pacific across Central America and into the Caribbean, Gulf and Atlantic, where suddenly tropical systems started spinning up.

The bubble, so to speak,

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