Updated at 9 a.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025

There is no sign of any significant tropical activity spinning up in the Atlantic in the next week to 10 days. Some tropical disturbances are forecast to move off Africa, but there's no indication that they will take a threatening track.

Wednesday is the "peak" of the hurricane season – the date when, historically speaking, we are most likely to have a named storm in the Atlantic, the Caribbean or the Gulf. That makes it even more unusual that the Atlantic is so quiet.

It's not obvious why this is happening, although recall that it also happened last year. There are negative factors in play, but there's no one factor to point to that is clearly responsible. For now, we won't argue with the hand of good cards we've been dealt ... even if a fe

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