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Veliladontoday at 1:50 AM1 replyview on HN

El Niño sends the jet stream southward. Once the jet stream gets far enough south it tears apart any developing storms in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea before they have a chance to become a problem.


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bearjawstoday at 1:59 AM

Also having large waves of Saharan dust which is too dry and inhibits hurricane development.

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