For months, the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was notable for one reason: a complete lack of hurricanes. That finally changed on Friday, when Danielle strengthened into the Atlantic’s first hurricane since last October.
The 2022 season had been predicted to continue the recent run of storm activity that pushed meteorologists deep into their annual list of alphabetized storm names, even exhausting it entirely.
But so far, it’s been a quiet summer: 60 days elapsed from Tropical Storm Colin’s demise on July 3 and Danielle’s arrival on Sept. 1.
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