The Eastern Pacific is half asleep on its waves as far as the hurricane season is concerned. Tropical storm Gil is barely above the lower threshold for a tropical storm, and won't get much stronger. Another system in the Gulf of Tehuantepec (south of Guatemala and El Salvador) might cook up something nasty, but that remains to be seen.
In the Atlantic, everybody is quivering in their boots over two systems prosaically designated 94L and 95L. 94L is headed for the Windward Islands, after which it may blow up into a tropical system. 95L is located 260 miles southeast of Charleston SC, and is drifting south. Neither of these are hurricanes, and it remains seriously unclear whether they will become anything at all.
In the Western Pacific, typhoon Fitow was barely a tropical depression 24 hours ago, but could be a category 4 typhoon in 4 days' time. It is headed in the general direction of Japan - I wouldn't fancy 130 knots / 145 mph winds actually.
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We're far and away not done seeing the results of what's happening in the Pacific and what's now starting the Atlantic in earnest. How much is the nature flow of life on earth, and what's been pushed ahead on the "calendar" by manmade intervention is unclear, but certainly a fact of gobal warming - the early Glacial Age we've put in progress is the final cost. CATHY
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