The National Hurricane Center has issued its final advisory ^[1] on Tropical Depression Dolly. Thus, for the first time since Bertha formed on July 3 ^[2] — exactly three weeks ago — there are no active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin.

From the meaningless-statistics department: three weeks of consecutive tropical activity is the longest such stretch since the heart of the 2006 season, when Debby ^[3], Ernesto ^[4] and Florence ^[5] churned up the ocean from August 21 through September 19. To have such a streak in August and September — basically straddling the climatological pea ^[6]k ^[6] of hurricane season, September 10 — isn’t terribly unusual. To have it in July is pretty remarkable.

Now, we may be in for a stretch of inactivity, which would be more typical ^[7] for this time of year. As I mentioned earlier ^[8], Dr. Jeff Masters wrote ^[9] this morning that “the four reliable computer models are not predicting development anywhere … in the Atlantic for the next 7 days.”

If that prediction is borne out, I’m sure the National Hurricane Center forecasters will appreciate the breather.

In other news, the NHC has posted a high-resolution satellite movie ^[10] of Dolly making landfall. It’s really neat.

UPDATE: Welcome, InstaPundit ^[11] readers! This isn’t really my “Dolly wrap-up” post, though. My wrap-up post is here ^[8].

UPDATE 2: A rant on “hype.” ^[12]