19 Days until the end of hurricane season

Hi there, I'm Fox 13 meteorologist Nash Rhodes and thank you for logging on to myfoxhurricane.com. We bring you daily updates on what's happening out there in the Atlantic. And for now, we just have 19 days left until the end of this Atlantic hurricane season. The past few weeks have been fairly quiet and it doesn't look like that's going to be changing anytime soon. The latest forecast is in from the National Hurricane Center and they are not expecting any additional developments for at least the next seven days. That goes for the Gulf and the Caribbean, and the big dominating feature out there has been the powerful upper-level winds, or wind shear, coming off the coast of the United States through the Gulf and the Caribbean, even just off the... East coast of the United States, very strong wind shear is persisting. Although we still have some warm sea surface temperatures and spots, which is why we're not going to completely let our guard down, it does look like the environment has become very, very hostile for anything to try and spin up in the near term. With regards to where we stand for tropical activity, from July through September is the biggest increase in tropical activity we typically see. That culminates to the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season that climatologically falls on about September 10th. We are in the backstretch of things with less than 10% now of the Atlantic hurricane season remaining. If anything new shows, like any new tropical disturbances start to pop up here in our long-range forecast models, we'll continue to keep you updated right here at myfoxhurricane.com. But at least for the next seven days, things look to remain quiet.