We've had trough after trough move through the eastern United States and spin over the Western Atlantic over the past few weeks. If there were anything out there right now, it'd have no chance of making it to the United States. The media jumped the gun with their reports a month or so ago about the Bermuda high; it changes its location and intensity on a week-to-week and month-to-month basis, as we've seen recently.
Using it's location in late January/early February to predict hurricane season activity is just short of pure folly. The accurate media reports would have mentioned that *if* such a pattern were to be established at some point during the hurricane season, hurricanes *might* threaten Florida...but that requires a storm out there in the first place, which in itself requires favorable conditions further out in the Atlantic as well as something to trigger tropical cyclone formation way out there. Instead, they took a quote -- or more appropriately, mistook a quote -- and ran with it.
Don't worry about the location of the high for now -- just sit back and enjoy the show!
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