Hurricane Watch: "Tropics quiet as we approach peak of season"

From Ken Kaye's Storm Center:

For the first time in about three weeks, the tropics are quiet as of this morning.

Relatively speaking.

That tropical wave is still out there. Way out there. More than 3,000 miles out there in the eastern Atlantic, near the Cape Verde Islands.

And the remnants of what was once Tropical Storm Erika are still in the eastern Caribbean....MORE