Back in the spring, you couldn’t open a weather app without reading about the “supercharged” hurricane season headed your way. Bigger storms. More of them. All courtesy of a warming planet.
We’re now well past the statistical peak of the season. And on September 11th, the Atlantic quietly made history.
That was the date the basin had to beat to avoid the record books. Twice before – 2002 and 2013 – the Atlantic had gone as late as September 11th without its first hurricane, and never later. This year, September 11th came and went with nothing on the board.
No matter what forms between now and the season’s official end on November 30th, 2026 already owns the title of the slowest start to hurricane season since satellite tracking began in 1966.
(The scientists still found a way to make this your fault. Give me a second to explain.)
The Washington Post ran the numbers and landed on this gem: rising atmospheric “stability” in the tropics “may be connected to a changing climate.” So for thirty years, an active season was blamed on climate change. Now a historically dead one is climate change too.
Heads they win. Tails you lose.
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