One heck of a tropical cyclone for the Atlantic in June. Lots and lots of deeply warm tropical waters, and related very humid tropical air, to work with so early in a season. Alex looks a lot more like a TC one might more expect to see out in the deep tropical western Pacific during their peak times of year, than out here during our official first month of the season.

As sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll let the attached image do the rest of the talking.