Extremely hostile upper-level winds and Saharan dust continue to dominate the tropical Atlantic, so the National Hurricane Center is predicting that nothing will develop through next week, which will take us to the middle of August. On average, tropical development takes off during the second half of the month. Dr. Bill Gray, who invented seasonal hurricane forecasts over 40 years ago, used to ring a bell on August 20th to signify that the busy part of the hurricane season