We are seeing a very quiet hurricane season this year - mostly do to cooling temperatures. From Accuweather:
Tropical Storm Dorian forms east of Lesser Antilles; Will another soon follow near Florida?
As the Atlantic hurricane season enters a "tropical red zone," a new tropical storm has formed east of the Lesser Antilles, and another depression or tropical storm may soon follow near Florida.
On Saturday afternoon, the system east of the Lesser Antilles was named Tropical Storm Dorian by the National Hurricane Center.
The area being monitored near Florida has been dubbed Invest 98L by the National Hurricane Center. The center of the disturbance was located over the warm waters of the Gulf Stream as of Saturday night.
And, of course, here is the cone:
Hurricanes run on temperature differential and the closer the air temp is to the water temp, the less energy.
Cooler air? More tropical storms stay tropical storms and fail to develop into hurricanes.
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