This is the latest in the season that the East Coast has gone without a major hurricane. Our record is still intact, but the Gulf States are expecting Tropical Storm Isaias to arrive as a hurricane late this Friday. The storm is expected to be back to a Tropical Storm by Saturday morning and make its way north through Mississippi, Alabama and western Tennessee. The hurricane season for the East Coast officially ends November 30th.

On Thursday, The New York Post reported:

Tropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before hitting the US Gulf Coast later in the week.

Isaias was located about 285 miles west of Progreso, Mexico, and about 580 miles southwest of the Mississippi River’s mouth, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center.

It had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving east-northeast at 8 mph.

It was not immediately known where the storm may make landfall on the Gulf Coast.

The article concludes:

The storm comes as the Atlantic hurricane season has been unusually quiet this year due to a strong El Niño, which disrupts storm formation over that ocean.

Storm activity in the Pacific has been above average.

This is the map from NOAA  (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) showing the projected path of the storm: