A feverish tropical Atlantic Ocean is doing things so rare even veteran hurricane experts are thunderstruck by its behavior this storm season, and curious — or anxious — about what will happen next.
Normally docile tropical waves cartwheeling off the coast of Africa are being goaded into development, the Saharan dust that tempers storm activity this time of year is thin to nonexistent and the Azores area of high pressure that stirs the dust and sends cooling breezes over the eastern Atlantic is weak and out of place.
