Strange Hurricane Season So Far

Except for Alberto (which blew up out of the Caribbean, not the open ocean to the east), the Atlantic Ocean has been a remarkably placid place this summer. A flat, calm, tepid little pond. And it's supposed to be a bad year too.

Meanwhile, so far, the western Pacific is a nightmare. A typhoon is likely to clip Taiwan by the weekend, just one of an assembly-line of storms hitting Oriental shores.

This pattern is unlikely to last, but it's interesting to see!