The deep tropics from the Caribbean across the Atlantic to Africa are about as hostile to tropical development as you're ever going to see during a hurricane season. There's a fire hose of upper-level winds from Central America almost to Africa. This on its own would normally prohibit tropical systems from developing. In addition, the Atlantic east of the islands is unusually cool, too cool to power tropical systems. And the Saharan dust machine is kicking in. Winds over th