The ocean is above average warm, yet the Atlantic hurricane season has so far been unusually quiet

This week marked the notional peak of the Atlantic hurricane season in a climatological sense – September 10 is, on long-term average, the day when hurricanes occur most frequently. Yet this year, not only on September 10 but also for several days prior to that date, no hurricane or tropical storm was present in the Atlantic. The last tropical system was ... More >>