## It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet. A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico should soon become a tropical storm, and based on the latest forecast modeling, it has a decent chance of becoming a hurricane. Normally, a hurricane forming in early October would not be particularly noteworthy. However, this year the development of a hurricane would be a big deal—because it has not happened yet. In the modern hurricane record—an era dating to about World War II when there has been…