Monsoonjr99 wrote:Maybe the CAG might develop something, but the Atlantic seems to have been in shutdown mode since Lorenzo peaked. The Atlantic had quite the impressive burst of 10 named storms in a little over a month, including two cat5s. It now seems to need to rest since nothing has formed since Lorenzo despite a supposedly favorable MJO. This year is not playing like last year as these subtropics disturbances don't want to develop. Maybe after this peak-season burst the 2019 Atlantic season is back to its off-peak ways and October might not be much more active than the first two-thirds of August. 2019 seems to be acting like 2002, but I don't expect Lorenzo to truly be the end of the season yet. If nothing materializes from this CAG, maybe Melissa forms late this month or in November from something else.
2007 is another season that comes to mind for this year. 13 storms but only five hurricanes up to this point in both years, largely sporadic activity with the overwhelming majority of the activity forming in about over about five weeks, and with the exception of three systems, mostly comprised of weaker, shorter-lived storms in the Gulf and subtropics, and seeing a lot of storms (and potential storms) struggle that in more typical active seasons would develop or strengthen. But then you had the 2-3 big storms that made the season but at the same time felt out of place compared to the rest of the season's activity, almost as if the remainder of the activity belonged in 2013 (and ironically this year shares the same name list as both of those years.)
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