The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1st, and 2012 went by as another year without (now 7 and counting) any landfalling hurricanes in Florida. Wilma in October 2005 was still the last hurricane to make landfall in Florida.

Odds were against Florida last year, and they are even moreso this year. I suspect this may be the year that the hurricane drought for Florida may end. But maybe the trend of no storms will continue.

This past year Isaac affected Louisiana and the northern Gulf coast, and Sandy (officially not a hurricane at landfall, but this site, in a rare move, maintains that it was) affected the northeast in a historic way.

This years storm names are: Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Ingrid, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Melissa, Nestor, Olga, Pablo, Rebekah, Sebastien, Tanya, Van, Wendy

We'll be around again this year, with our typical approach to tracking storms without the need for hype.