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No hurricane has formed in the Atlantic Ocean so far in the 2026 season as of Sept. 12, setting a new record for the latest date in a modern hurricane season without at least one hurricane. Not even a potential tropical cyclone is in sight on the National Hurricane Center forecast map, thanks in part to the influence of a powerful El Niño that's kept a lid on storms this summer . Only two seasons in the modern satellite record – 2002 and 2014 – made it almost this long without a hurricane. In each year, a hurricane formed on Sept.
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