Nearing the record for the latest first hurricane in the Atlantic

We are two days away from the peak day for hurricane season (with many more days of hurricane season coming, of course). Yet there have been no Atlantic Hurricanes. In just a few days (on September 11th) if we don't have a hurricane, we'll break the record for latest over the period of record keeping.

There is a storm forming off the coast of Africa that might become a hurricane before September 11th. Or maybe not. The race is on!

Anyway, Paul Douglas of Weather Nation has a video explaining the current situation:

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