Hurricanes: Another record season?

For East Coast residents and property owners, admiring Hurricane Edouard's fearful symmetry might be akin to sitting near a cozy fire with a cup of hot chocolate while a winter storm rages outside.

Yesterday Edouard became the most-powerful hurricane of the season, a Category 3 with winds reaching 115 m.p.h.

While Odile, a Pacific storm, is threatening parts of the Southwest with torrential rains, Edoaurd is spinning almost it the center of the North Atlantic, hundreds of miles from any land masses.

Edouard was a concern for shipping interests, obviously, and not a good day to be fish out that way.

For the rest of us, it is a good day to be grateful for an unprecedented run of hurricane tranquility in the Atlantic Basin.

This is Sept. 17, the traditional peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, and right now it's about as quiet as Citizens Bank Park will be in October.

We've noted that no major hurricanes have made landfall in the United States in eight seasons, and none of any strength have hit Florida in that time – both records.

This could well be No. 9.