it is mid October, and there have been no hurricanes that hit US shores

[scheming daemons]

I find that fascinating.

It is highly unusual to have an entire hurricane season without anything coming ashore.

Weird.

[grantcart]

1. Yahweh thought that living under the yolk of the drama of the Republican House leadership

drama was more punishment than the country deserved.

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. random chance perhaps

it appears so on the surface but maybe the kids playing Sim Earth took a break.

[Ineeda]

3. Still six weeks to go, but

living on the Florida Gulf coast, I'm grateful......so far.

[UtahJosh]

4. Maybe, but...

The world is a big place, perhaps America has been spared recently but Japan got hit with a deadly typhoon just last night.

[gopiscrap]

8. Welcome to DU

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. And I for one do not like this at all!

Studies have shown that a lot of the heat is being absorbed by the oceans and that means bigger hurricanes.
The last two typhoons in India and Japan have been monsters.
This MAY signal a new pattern of fewer but bigger storms. The 10 or 12 we usually get may be all balled up into just a couple.

Note that I said MAY. Hopefully this is just an outlier.

[deutsey]

6. Sandy didn't develop until the end of October

As someone who lives in one of the areas that could've been a direct hit, I'm hoping it remains quiet for the rest of this month.

[trumad]

7. This Floridian agrees...

I hope we never see another Hurricane.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. True

And the last weekend of October in 2011 - we had that Frankenstorm in NJ. . .

So we are crossing our fingers here that we just have a nice normal Fall the last week of October this year.

[FarCenter]

10. It is probably due to climate change

Northern latitudes have warmed more than equatorial areas, so there is less temperature difference to drive the atmosphere.

[Orsino]

11. So the GOP had to invent one. n/t

[L0oniX]

12. Lots of dry air coming off of Africa.

[pipi_k]

13. One person/area's

blissful hurricane-free season is another person/area's scare-fest.

Not that I wish death and destruction on others, but hurricane season, where I am, is an opportunity to refill my well and big pond with the remnants of them.

This summer saw my pond (which is a haven for aquatic life AND would double as a water source in case of a fire, since there are no hydrants where I am) was dangerously low.

It typically gets a bit low in August of each year, but by then we are saved by the appearance of a tropical storm.

This year, no tropical storms. It got real scary out back.

Not to mention that when the ground is dry, the chance of forest fire rises.

And the well water started smelling skunky, which indicates that the water level is dropping.

I'm hoping we get plenty of snow cover this winter.

[B Calm]

14. Proof to republicans there is no global climate change

LOL