The 2025 Atlantic Basin hurricane season has been quite a bit different than the last several. After a sluggish start, the basin produced a long-lived and powerful storm — Hurricane Erin — but since then, activity has dropped off sharply. In fact, the Atlantic has been quiet for nearly two weeks, right at the time of year that is normally the busiest. If no new storms form in the coming days, it would mark only the second time since 1950 that the Atlantic went from late August through Mid-September without a named storm.

Colorado State University’s TC-RAMS team – one of the major outfits that releases annual basin predictions – has shed some light on the sudden lull. First, the last several weeks have been marred by dry, stable air across the tropical Atlantic, which makes it harder for s

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