The 2013 hurricane season has been hurricane-less up to this point but that may change as Tropical Storm Humberto continues to develop; it may have enough strength to be upgraded to a hurricane by the end of the week, according to Fox News.
When Hurricane Gustav formed on Sept. 11 2002 it was the latest forming hurricane tracked during the satellite era, which begins in the early 1960s, according to Fox News.
Tropical Storm Humberto is currently about 105 miles south of Praia in the Cape Verde Islands. On Monday the maximum sustained winds measured in the storm were close to 40 miles per hour. In order to be considered a hurricane sustained wind speeds need to reach 74 mph, according to the Associated Press.
Humberto is currently moving northwest from the Cape Verde Islands into a part of the Atlantic that has conditions favorable for strengthening the storm but by the end of the week it should weaken again. The storm is not projected to approach anywhere that it could do damage, according to Fox News.
"During the middle of this week, Humberto will enter an area of the atmosphere with low disruptive winds," Dan Kottlowski, a hurricane expert, told Fox News. "Late this week, Humberto is likely to weaken while moving into a zone with drier air and more disruptive winds."
It is important for people to understand that just because there haven't been any hurricanes yet this year the season is not over and destructive storms could still be in the future.
"While 2005's Wilma occurred during the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, it did not come about until the middle of October," meteorologist Mark Mancuso told Fox News.
In fact, the majority of hurricanes occur later in the season so there can still be plenty of action still to come. Since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started keeping track in 1851 there have been 645 hurricanes during the second half of the season (September, October and November) with only 568 happening in the first three months of the season, according to Fox News.
