THE STORM
The Atlantic's one area is a tropical wave near the Cabo Verde Islands at 20 percent over two days and 40 percent over seven , possibly a short-lived depression Thursday or Friday. Its one storm dissolved into a remnant low, and the season stands at six named storms and no hurricane .
THE RECORD
10 turning points on record since Sep 13 — the 8 most recent shown.
Sep 23 easing → emerging
Sep 22 → held
Sep 22 ▽ eased
Sep 21 emerging → easing
Sep 19 easing → emerging
Sep 18 building → easing · eased sharply
Sep 17 easing → building
Sep 16 building → easing
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
searched 34 vetted voices and the open field — nothing said about this system cleared the screen.
SOURCES — GDACS RSS, Sep 21 2026 — AN AGGREGATOR, read as a lead and never as the authority for a published intensity: POLO-26 green with about 0.827 million people sized inside tropical-storm-force winds, ODALYS-26 green (0), FAY-26 green (0); flood entries for Thailand, the Philippines (1 dead), Cyprus, Guinea (1 dead, 269 displaced), Cambodia and South Africa all green. The Japan system did NOT surface in today's RSS window, and several Sunday flood entries are absent — absence from a feed is not confirmed clearance. Earthquakes and volcanoes screened out as non-weather. · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook 200 AM EDT Wed Sep 23 2026 (Cangialosi) — a tropical wave near the Cabo Verde Islands at 20 percent/48 h and 40 percent/7 d, possibly a short-lived depression Thursday or Friday with gusty winds and heavy rain for Cabo Verde; no other areas; no active Atlantic cyclones. NHC Fay Advisory 14 (final), 900 PM GMT Tue Sep 22 — remnant low near 30.8 N 35.3 W, 35 mph . · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 200 AM EDT Fri Sep 18 2026 · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 200 AM EDT Mon Sep 21 2026 (forecaster Kelly), with the active-cyclones page: Tropical Storm FAY (AL06) about 34.1 N 31.9 W south-west of the Azores at about 70 mph , moving ESE at about 5 mph and forecast to weaken Monday; 'tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days'; no active system in the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico. Central pressure is NOT stated on the summary page and is not printed anywhere on this page. · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 200 AM EDT Sep 15 2026 · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 200 AM EDT Sep 16 2026 (Hagen) · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 200 AM EDT Thu Sep 17 2026 · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 200 AM EDT Tue Sep 22 2026 (forecaster Cangialosi), with the active-cyclones page — Tropical Storm FAY (AL06) near 32.3 N 33.1 W, 40 mph , moving SW at 8 mph and on the verge of degenerating over open water with no land threat; a NEW far-eastern-Atlantic area near the Cabo Verde Islands at 0 percent/48h and 30 percent/7d, UP from Monday's 'formation is not expected during the next 7 days'; no active system in the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico. 2026 still has no Atlantic hurricane and the record for the latest first hurricane of a season holds. · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 2:00 AM EDT Sat Sep 19 2026 (forecaster Gibbs): Invest AL99, several hundred miles south-west of the Azores, carries a HIGH 80 percent over 48 hours and 80 percent over 7 days while disorganised, drifting slowly and then turning south-west early next week; 'environmental conditions are forecast to become less favorable for development beginning Sunday night or on Monday.' No land threat. AL98, east of Bermuda, is off the board. No active system and no flagged area in the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico. · NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook, 2:00 AM EDT Sep 13 2026 · NHC Fay Adv 14 · WCAX, Sep 21 2026 (reported) — six named storms and zero hurricanes; the first season without a hurricane by Sep 21 since 1914.
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