Hope can be a cruel thing.

Looks like we may be in for a longer wait than many of us predicted at the beginning of the season. Still, Alex will form sometime and the sooner the better. There is currently something brewing over Africa which may give us something to watch in a few days.

While this slow start is not really unusual, and it has no correlation with the peak of season, it sure is dull. Since the upturn in tropical activity began in 1995, the only other year without a tropical system of any description by July 16th was 1998.