The Unprecedented Calmness of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season

For the past 27 years, without fail, the Labor Day holiday weekend in the US has featured a storm in the Atlantic – but not in 2024. In early September, the Atlantic basin remained suspiciously quiet, continuing a run of calm weather that has lingered since Hurricane Ernesto whipped through the Caribbean in mid-August.

Hurricane forecasters were almost certain this year would be a busy hurricane season in the Atlantic, says Phil Klotzbach at Colorado State University, who co-authors the institution’s…