Quiet in the Tropics

We are already about 2 months into the 2009 hurricane season and we still haven’t had our first tropical storm in the Atlantic or Caribbean.

Ocean temperatures are plenty warm, but the atmosphere just can’t seem to get going. Here’s this morning’s update from the National Hurricane Center.

Current tropical activity-from the NHC

Even though there are a few tropical waves worth keeping an eye on…based on the discussion I read this morning, forecasters don’t expect any of them to develop over the next 36-48 hours.

Just an aside…the name of our first storm will be Ana.

With 35 million people living along US coastlines, a quiet season is a good season. But the “official” long-term forecast still calls for  for more than a dozen named storms… and the season is still young.