100feettstormsurge wrote:TheStormExpert wrote:Yeah definitely not looking good at all the remainder of the season for any Tropical Cyclone activity in the Atlantic basin. Even homegrown/close-in development for the remainder of the season now seems iffy to me.
It still only takes one for a huge impact, and there's a lot of time since any effects of El Nino won't be felt for weeks, if not months.
Actually some El Niño effects have already been felt for a while now. With the higher than shear across the MDR regions in past months on the Atlantic side, and the record breaking strong early start to the East Pacific hurricane season with Amanda and Cristina being very early season Cat.4 hurricanes.