Clean up and power restoration in Texas will be the story for the next few days as what is left of Beryl head up the Mississippi valley. As bad as Beryl was, it could have been a lot worse. The storm did not really start intensifying until it was on the Texas coast. If the intensification process started sooner, then the impacts to Texas would have been even more significant. July is typically one of the quieter months of the hurricane season, and it looks like we will have an extended break from any tropical development as a plume of Saharan dust moves across the tropical Atlantic. Tropics usually become much more active by mid to late August.