This year's Atlantic hurricane season began Sunday and forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are so far looking forward to a relatively quiet week ahead. As of 7 a.m. Monday, tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next seven days in the Atlantic Basin,

June 1 is the first day of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, the official start of a six-month period that can bring some of the most destructive and costly natural disasters to American shores.