(Former Meteorologist & CFHC Forum Moderator (Ed Passed Away on May 14, 2017))

Tue Aug 20 2013 04:00 AM

Re: Slow Week in August

It is indeed unusual for the week of 19-25 August to not have a named storm. In the past 50 years it has only happened 7 times: 1967, 1968, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1997 and 2002. A very weak cyclonic curvature is noted near Cape Sable - but that's it for the entire basin.
ED

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