Los Cabos’ international airport and resorts remained open during and after the threat of Hurricane Blanca, which was later downgraded to a tropical storm and made landfall north of the destination early Monday morning, the Los Cabos Tourism Board said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts below-average storm activity for the six-month 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially begins June 1. The forecast calls for 6 to 11 tropical storms with three to six reaching hurricane status and two reaching major hurricane strength.

Reacting to a major snowstorm that’s expected to thrash parts of the Northeast airlines cancelled more than 3,200 flights — a move that came even before the first snowflakes began falling.
For the second straight year, Americans living in coastal towns or possessing beachfront property along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico will be breathing a sigh of relief following an extremely quiet hurricane season.
With the Atlantic hurricane season set to conclude on Sunday, it appears the 2014 season will go down as one of the more uneventful the Atlantic basin has ever seen.

While Hurricane Cristobal will track east of the United States this week, it will spread rough surf along much of the Atlantic coast and will have some direct impact on Bermuda. Hurricane hunter aircraft found 75-mph winds in thunderstorms just southeast of the center of Cristobal Monday evening.