Again, that is irrelevant to my point. July and August are the peak months for tropical storms hitting the United States. Do you not get it?
You don't get it, because you're wrong.
Finally found hard numbers...
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/dcmifinal2.pdf
Hurricanes hitting the US since 1900:
June: 19
July: 23
August: 74
September: 102
October: 50
November: 5
TWICE as many hurricanes have hit the US in October than in June and July COMBINED.
In terms of danger to the US the tropical season isn't even at the halfway point yet.
For reasons incomprehensible to me people have their sense of Atlantic Tropical Climatology off by a month...their mental picture of the season is advanced a month from reality.
Thus basically EVERY year, in the first couple weeks of August, if there aren't 3-4 hurricanes in the Atlantic at once, people start whining that the seasonal forecast for that year was wrong and it will be a dead season (as happened this year.