Conditions for development are not looking very pretty for our "Main Development Region" Invest 91L. The air is increasingly dry, and the shear is increasingly high, and the window for significant development, and by significant we are talking *T.D.* here, not necessarily a hurricane let alone named storm, in the near term, may actually be going downhill. In fact, the environment could become so hostile that the fledgling system just poofs like so many before it. We have seen healthier systems this year not get declared a T.D. at all.

One other potential hurdle for 91L is the possibility advertised by the GFS of a beefy W Caribbean-SW Gulf named storm producing a great deal of enhancement in the upper atmosphere, such that shear only increases even more on whatever 91L may be by the end of the coming week.

This has not been a year for disturbances to thrive in the MDR, despite all the usual stars having come into alignment early on to suggest a banner MDR year was coming.