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Today's Daily Sun printed an AP story about Hurricane Beryl that was very misleading by saying that since 1851 only 5 named storms (like Beryl) had ever formed in June east of the Caribbean. In the first place, the period-of-record is full of holes - literally. The eastern tropical North Atlantic had very few if any ship/aircraft data to report storms from long ago. Furthermore, weather satellite observations only began in the 1960s. Second, not only is the June 2024 hurricane season late, but the Pacific typhoon season is even later than normal.