If a heavy hurricane season is your fault, whose fault is this?
CFACT meteorologist Chris Martz summed it up:
“We have made it through September without a single hurricane forming in the North Atlantic.
This has not happened since at least 1914 (although the lack of satellite observations before 1966 means that pre-1966 NOAA HURDAT2 best track data has significant uncertainty and data gaps, and those gaps widen the further back in time one goes).
The only other two times that this may have occurred were in the 1905 and 1907 Atlantic hurricane seasons, respectively. Like 1914, the 1907 season featured no hurricanes that we know of by year end. The first (and only) hurricane to form in 1905 was on October 8th.
With no new named storm formations expected for at least the next seven days, we could very well match or eclipse 1908. Tying 1907 and 1914 in terms of having zero hurricanes is also on the table, but I cannot rule a hurricane or two out yet. October and November can throw us curveballs, but with El Niño strengthening in the equatorial Pacific (yielding higher vertical shear in the North Atlantic) and climatology, odds increasingly are in our favor to go the entirety of 2026 without one hurricane in the Atlantic.
Pretty incredible stuff from a meteorologist’s POV.”