An historic calm in the Atlantic during peak hurricane season:

HOUSTON – If it feels unusually quiet in the tropics right now, you’re not imagining it. We haven’t seen a single named storm since August 29. And if we make it through Tuesday, September 16, without one, it will be a rare milestone. In fact, since reliable record-keeping began in 1950, only one other year, 1992, went this long in the Atlantic without a named storm.

Watching the next system, but Gabrielle will stay out of the Gulf:

It’s going to be a close call. The disturbance we’ve been tracking in the Atlantic has a 90% chance of developing into a tropical storm within the next two days. When it does form, it will be named Gabrielle .

The good news: Gabrielle won’t move into the Gulf, and it may even miss the U.S. Ea

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