The weather pattern over the Gulf, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic is in a wintertime mode. The jet stream is being energized this year by the super El Niño, so it's even more hostile to development than normal. Tropical development is unlikely for the rest of this month. Hurricane season officially ends, of course, on November 30. Tropical systems can form and have formed every month of the year, however. The Atlantic's official June-to-November designation of hurricane