This will become the first season in recent memory w/o a hurricane before the end of August. Next week, however, things begin to change for a few weeks with a more pos. MJO effect expected in the basin. What has interested me most is the series of upper level eddys that have hovered in and around the Florida Straits/GOM region. These features have influenced at least four of the storms so far this year and neutralized three of them. I do not recall this type of recurrent pattern occurring before, although I am sure it has.