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.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago