While the month of July still brought plenty of suffering in the form of flooding across the Southeastern and Southwestern United States, the hurricanes and tropical storms were thankfully very tame.

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The Atlantic hurricane season has only produced four named storms so far, but conditions appear favorable for storms for the remainder of the season.