‘A mystery:’ Curiously quiet hurricane season has forecasters scratching heads

The Atlantic hasn’t been this quiet in 50 years, and hurricane scientists are trying to figure out why.

The last time a storm didn’t form between August 12 and September 3 — historically among the most active stretches of the hurricane season — was in 1968, said Phil Klotzbach, senior research scientist at Colorado State University and head of the leading academic seasonal forecast.

The quiet in the Atlantic is even weirder considering nearly every forecast this year trumpeted an alarming hurricane season ahead.