It’s been pretty quiet across the Atlantic since Tropical Storm Cristobal moved through the Gulf of Mexico about two weeks ago.

Heading into the weekend, we have a few tropical waves on the map moving through the Caribbean Sea and Central Atlantic. None of these look to be a threat for tropical development at the moment.

Several areas of moderate to high wind shear will continue to keep things quiet over the next few days. In addition, large plumes of Saharan dust have been spreading east across the Atlantic further hindering any development. A secondary benefit of this dust in the atmosphere is often vivid sunsets – there should be some good ones over the next week through the Caribbean and parts of the Gulf Coast.

Things are pretty quiet across Atlantic right now – as we would expect for this time of the year.

June is usually a pretty quiet month for tropical activity. Only 6% of named storms since 1950 have formed during the month of June. The areas we usually see development during the first month or two of hurricane season is close to home, with storms developing in the Gulf and western Caribbean.

At the moment, there’s an area of disturbed weather over the southern Gulf and western Caribbean, but a broad trough over the eastern U.S. is producing quite a bit of wind shear over these typical formation zones. Don’t expect any areas of concern for at least the next 5-7 days.