00:00All right, by the time we get into mid-August, late August and September, that is the heart of the hurricane season.
00:10So on our curve, which shows you the number of storms per day from 1944 to 2020, we're right in here on our steep incline up historically for hurricanes and named storms.
00:25That's why I call this the heart of the hurricane season here.
00:28And when you look at the graph, there's kind of four seasons that you see during the hurricane season.
00:34You have early season development.
00:36You get that June through mid-July.
00:37And then we just got out of what?
00:40What I call the mid-season lull.
00:42That is from mid-July to mid-August.
00:45And the red highlighted here, boy, that is the heart of the season where you see most of the storms.
00:50And still, you can get some storms in late season.
00:54And that's October through November, although most of the storms occur in that period in October here.
01:01All right, here's what we look at for storms.
01:03Still, you can get some homegrown development sometimes in August, especially early in the month.
01:08But later in the month, you start getting development out in the tropical Atlantic where we've seen Aaron and we're tracking a couple of tropical waves.
01:16Once you get into September, the entire Atlantic basin is open for business.
01:22You have those hot spots near the islands, southwest Atlantic, and, of course, in the Caribbean and in the Gulf.
01:29The reason September is such a busy month, a couple of things here.
01:32Water temperatures are usually at their peak.
01:35Almost every year, they peak in September.
01:39And also, while you're dealing with a lot of dry air during the early parts of the year, by the time you get into September, the Saharan dust is reduced.
01:51And that's why the Atlantic, entire Atlantic basin is open for business.
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