The Atlantic hurricane season reached 103 days without a hurricane, in Saturday's CNN file. [1] The New York Times filed the latest first-hurricane mark in the satellite era. [2] Five named storms had formed. None had reached 74-mile-an-hour winds. [1] Print the drought. Do not print a finished season. The calendar still runs to November 30.

El Niño is the driver in both files: shear and sinking air against warm water. [1][2] A quiet Atlantic is not a quiet Kauai. Lowell is Pacific. KITV's 76 percent is not this chart. Do not stitch them.

Edouard coming short of hurricane strength on September 1 is CNN's closest call. [1] A miss is a miss. It is not a secret hurricane. Print 103 days. Leave a named Atlantic hurricane to the edition that owns one.

A hundred three days without an Atlantic hurricane is notable, not ominous; seasons vary. El Niño shear explains the quiet. The Pacific, meanwhile, produced Lowell.

Notable seasons note; Saturday notes. Noting is the update. Shear explains quiet.

A basin can be late without being broken. That lateness is weather copy, not a verdict on the planet. CNN's 103 empty days still sit inside a live season.

The Atlantic is still waiting for its first hurricane of the year, 103 days into the season CNN counted. Five named storms stayed below 74-mile-an-hour winds. Edouard brushed the threshold on September 1 and missed. Satellite-era lateness is still a wait.
Saturday's Atlantic is still waiting. Five named storms stayed below 74-mile-an-hour winds. Satellite-era lateness is still a wait.

Saturday's Atlantic is still waiting. Five named storms stayed below 74-mile-an-hour winds. Satellite-era lateness is still a wait.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago