The tropics have been so still you can hear an iguana fart. There has been little happening down in the equatorial regions of the world. But this is August. We need a good storm. Have you seen The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore lately? Frankly, he got a little chubs.

Don’t get me wrong. Cantore, who has been chasing storms for the last 25 years, isn’t morbidly obese. He’s barely overweight.