The climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is right around the corner on Sept. 10, but it’s been suspiciously quiet for nearly two weeks.

The last storm in the Atlantic was Hurricane Ernesto, which made landfall on Bermuda on Aug. 17. It lost its title on Aug. 20, when it became a post-tropical storm in the northern Atlantic.

Since then there have been no named storms, and no potential storms either, for that matter. That all comes under the headline that this hurricane season, which runs until Nov. 30, will be extremely active in the Atlantic, with the potential for 17 to 24 named storms.

But as of Wednesday morning there were signs that tropical activity could pick up again.

The National Hurricane Center was watching two areas in the Atlantic Ocean for potential tropical development. Both areas had low chances of becoming tropical depressions.

One area was several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda, and it had only a 10 percent chance of becoming a depression in the next seven days. Conditions were expected to become more unfavorable for it to develop, forecasters said.

The other area, which was far from land in the central Atlantic, may bear watching in the coming week. Forecasters said an area of low pressure could develop in a few days, and conditions will be favorable for it to slowly organize starting this weekend and into next week.

It is expected to track to the west-northwest at 10 to 15 mph, and it could eventually affect the Leeward Islands.

As of Wednesday it had a 20 percent probability of becoming a tropical depression in the next week.

The next name on the 2024 storm list is Francine.

So far in 2024 there have been five named storms. Two of them, Alberto and Chris, were tropical storms that hit Mexico.

The remaining three, Beryl, Debby and Ernesto, all became hurricanes. And all three of them made landfall.

Beryl, which at one point was history-making Category 5, had three landfalls: in the Caribbean, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and in Texas. Debby had two landfalls, one as a hurricane on Florida’s Big Bend region and the second as a tropical storm on the South Carolina coast. And Ernesto hit Bermuda after side-swiping Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30.