Atlantic Hurricane Season Slows to a Crawl

Earlier this year, with so many unusually early tropical storms, it looked as if we might be experiencing another of those Atlantic hurricane seasons with a multitude of named storms extending toward the end of the alphabet.  However, during this past month we've had nary a one...but that situation may be changing in the course of the next week or so.  Out in the eastern Atlantic are two tropical circulation zones, which the folks in the meteorological realm, who have a penchant for giving curious designations to weather patterns, have called "Invest 97-L" and "Invest 96-L".  They are being given around a 30-50 % chance for development and are heading down a westward trajectory that would leave the most advanced one getting to Puerto Rico in as early as five days.  Not that I want a tropical storm, much less a hurricane, to hit us or anyone else, but at least it's a newsworthy item that can serve as a welcome distraction to the extremely annoying election campaign season we're having to undergo...