Updated at 9:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

It's extremely unusual to have no named tropical systems in the first half of September, and even weirder that the pause began in August. Since satellites began monitoring the Atlantic in the 1960s, the only year that was somewhat comparable was the very slow hurricane season in 1968. The only hurricane stronger than Category 1 that year was Hurricane Gladys that hit Florida north of Tampa as a Cat 2 in December.

In 2025, the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf continue to be generally hostile to tropical development, although it looks like a supportive slot will develop in the central Atlantic that will allow Gabrielle to form and intensify later this week.

The National Hurricane Center has the odds in the very high category that the

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