Fall arrives Tuesday night, and the Atlantic Basin still has not produced a hurricane this season.
Fall arrives Tuesday night, and the Atlantic Basin still has not produced a hurricane this season.
As of Sept. 21, that puts 2026 at the second-latest point in the season on record without the first hurricane even forming.
Only 1905 held out longer, with its first hurricane not forming until Oct. 8. And two Atlantic seasons—1907 and 1914—finished without a single reported hurricane at all.
The Atlantic’s accumulated cyclone energy—a cumulative measure of the season’s total wind power from all storms—is also at its lowest level for this point in the season since 1950.
That created plenty of buzz around Tropical Storm Fay, which came close to becoming the season’s first hurricane overnight. It peaked near 70 mph—just short of the 74-mph hurricane threshold—and is now weakening far out in the North Atlantic, thousands of miles from the U.S. East Coast.
So, as of the end of summer, still no hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin.
Meanwhile, it’s a very different story in the Pacific. Tropical Storms Odalys and Polo formed during the final days of summer, and another disturbance east-southeast of Hawaii could bring another round of heavy rain to parts of the islands later this week.
