On average, September 10 is the date when there is most likely to be a named storm in the Atlantic, the Caribbean, or the Gulf. In fact, it's rare that there is not a named storm somewhere in the Atlantic basin on this date. But here we are. In the interests of precision, the National Hurricane Center’s graph is based on 77 years of storm data from 1944 to 2020. A few weak storms could have been missed in the pre-satellite years between 1944 and 1965, but aircraft reconnais