Our reliable record of tropical development only goes back to 1966. That's when weather satellites began giving us a view of the entire Atlantic Ocean. Since that time, it's unlikely that we would have missed any hurricanes. In those 60 hurricane seasons that have gone by, the latest date that the first hurricane developed was September 11. We are obviously going to blow past that modern record this year. A drier-than-normal atmosphere, higher-than-normal pressures, hostile