The Nautical Blog Hop Voyage got under way in very rare climatic conditions.
This storm-free image was produced by joining a number of satellite images together
As the Nautical Blog Fleet weighed anchor, Rob Gutro of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was reporting the very rare situation where no cyclone or tropic storm was noted in any ocean.
Today, Rob Gutro has reported a return to climate normal, with the first storm spotted since the storm-free period. Tropical Storm Usagi is forming to the East of the Phillipines