August is ending without a named storm for the first time since 1997. State Climatologist Barry Keim says we’ve gone since early July without a named storm and that’s the first time since 1941 there have been no named storms between July 3rd and August 31st. He says it’s been an odd hurricane season.
” Given the forecast, NOAA, the group out of Colorado State, they’re all predicting a well above normal year,” Keim says.
Keim says dust from Africa has played a role in keeping the tropics quiet…
“The atmosphere here has been relatively stable across all breeding grounds, and they attribute that to the Saharan air layer,” he says
Keim says the air layer stabilizes the atmosphere.
But Keim says we can’t let our guard down as September 10th is the peak and there’s still time for a major storm to develop.
“If we can hold out for another five, six weeks, the chances of another hurricane rolling up on our shores is pretty low, ” he says.
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