East coast and gulf coast sea surface temperatures have remains low compared to last year. NJ (east coast) ocean temperature dropped to 59 degrees (15 c) durng the 1st week of August. Demonstrated below, storms from Africa (that breed hurricanes) have shifted to a more southern track across S America. That means no storms in the Caribbean to breed hurricanes.
Meanwhile, the eastern Pacific is now into a ninth tropical depression - this one called Hector.
However currently in the upper left corner, about 200 miles away from "South of the Border" is a potential tropical storm.
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