For the first time in 112 years, the Atlantic Ocean has made it past the midway point of hurricane season without seeing a single hurricane.
The National Hurricane Center has tracked six named storms so far in the Atlantic Basin, which includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America, but none of them evolved beyond a tropical storm.
As of Sept. 22, Tropical Storm Fay is the Atlantic’s only active named storm, last tagged 645 miles southwest of the Azores, but the National Hurricane Center announced it was weakening into a tropical depression, which keeps the hurricane-less streak going.
This is the first time the Atlantic hurricane season has been this quiet since 1914, according to meteorologists—one of two years to pass without a single hurricane since records began in 1851. The other year was 1907. It is also the quietest start of a season since the era of weather satellites began in 1966….