There is some activity worth watching now as it gets close to the peak of hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center has an area of low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico labeled as “Potential Tropical Cyclone Six” which will likely become Tropical Storm Francine by Monday evening or Tuesday morning.

Meteorologists are trying to figure out how this year's hurricane season went from historically wild to unnaturally quiet in a month's time.

I haven’t seen a year where the conditions were so conducive flopping so miserably," a top CSU researcher who studies hurricanes and climate said. So what's going on? Here's the explanation from officials and what we can expect for the rest of the season.