You may have heard about the potential for tropical activity off of the Southeast U.S. coast over the past few days. We’ve been watching that area for a possible tropical depression, but at this point in time it doesn’t seem likely. You can read the latest discussion from the National Hurricane Center here. This has been a very quiet Atlantic hurricane season thus far, but it’s not a wash just yet. While nothing looks good for tropical development in the Atlantic, Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico at the moment…we’ve still got ample time left in the 2006 season (runs through November 30th). We’ll hope for no hurricanes at all, but it’s important to recall that the height of hurricane season doesn’t occur until September 10th, which coincides with the time of warmest sea surface temperatures. For the time being…we’re in the clear and that’s great news.

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