Worst of Atlantic hurricane season still to come

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2532697220070725

MIAMI (Reuters) - Nearly eight weeks have passed since the last tropical storm in the Atlantic-Caribbean region faded away, but banish any notion the 2007 hurricane season has been unusually slow and beware the coming months, experts say.

The peak of the six-month season is just around the corner and forecasters are still predicting a busy one.

"There's absolutely nothing out of the ordinary," Gerry Bell, a hurricane forecaster for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said of the Atlantic season's first two months. "It's not slow. It's not fast."

On average, June and July produce zero to two named storms or hurricanes. So far this year there have been two. Andrea formed in early May, Barry on June 1.

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I told him to be careful what he wishes for.

Weren't they barely tropical?

They knew the storms would probably not develop much past a TS when they named them, though I believe in the first case there may have been a chance for it, but they were TS by the numbers.

Aside from the fact that the jet stream has shifted and is wreaking havoc in Europe, just how hot is it out there?