Over the last few days the area of disturbed weather off the East Coast coalesced into Tropical Storm Chantal, made landfall on the South Carolina coast, and is slowly weakening and moving north. It is now a Tropical Depression with further weakening likely. It will continue to bring some rainy conditions to central and eastern North Carolina and Virginia over the next couple of days until it moves north, out of the Southeast and up the East Coast.
There is nothing else on the horizon that looks like it will cause any trouble in the tropics for at least the next week. Keep in mind that the average date of the first hurricane in the Atlantic based on 1991-2020 averages is August 11, so we are not late.
