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July 14, 2007
No hurricanes forming despite ripe conditions
That is a great headline for Caribbean residents and travelers, but it seems that everyone is so afraid of significant storms from the constant media drumbeat hyping the hurricane season that travel to the region during this time of year is very slow. More from Florida Today:
Hurricanes love warmer water and moist air, and both are present these days in and over the Atlantic Ocean.
But no weather systems are biting at those ripe conditions.
"There are a couple of tropical waves out there, but nothing of significance," Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said Friday.
The Atlantic typically warms and the air over it moistens during mid- to late summer, which can spark tropical storm activity.
