Tropical activity in the Atlantic has finally taken a breather after a 50-day stretch when the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was monitoring at least one tropical disturbance or named storm.

The streak came to an end when the NHC's five-day tropical outlook issued at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday said: "Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days."

You'd have to go back to Aug. 27 at 8 p.m. EDT to find the last time there wasn't a tropical disturbance with at least a low chance of development.

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The active seven-week period began Aug. 28 at 2 a.m. EDT when the NHC highlighted a tropical disturbance that was forecast to emerge off the African coast. That system would eventually form into Florence, which roamed the Atlantic for about two weeks before becoming a flood disaster in the Carolinas.

Ending the streak was a western Caribbean area of low pressure the NHC had given a medium chance of forming into a tropical depression, but it moved into Central America on Tuesday without development.

Satellite imagery shows relatively calm conditions have returned to the Atlantic, for now, with only a few clusters of showers and thunderstorms.

Nine named storms traversed parts of the Atlantic Basin during the 50-day period, including Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael and Nadine. There was also one tropical depression.

Five of those nine storms became hurricanes, and Michael was the strongest, with 155-mph winds at landfall on the Florida Gulf Coast.

It's no surprise to have such a busy period over several weeks extending from late-August into October, as that is the typical peak of hurricane season each year .

Last year had a longer streak of days when the NHC was monitoring at least one tropical disturbance or named storm – 60, from Aug. 2 to Oct. 1, and that stretch included Harvey, Irma and Maria.

Although it's quiet now, the Atlantic still needs to be watched for several more weeks, as hurricane season runs through Nov. 30. Nevertheless, the amount of activity in the Atlantic is historically on a sharp downward trend by this time of the year.