El Nino is messing up the Atlantic storms with shear. Another depression (#9A) is about to be blown away - the swirl is there, but no thunderstorms. TD #10A is to its southeast and could become T.S. Ida. The Central Pacific (Hawaii) has been VERY busy with El Nino.
The W Pacific "season" starts in March, but it's almost year round out there.
In the winter and spring months, the Indian Ocean starts up (Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal)......then in the spring the South Pacific gets it. It's neat to see the clockwise rotation down south. A couple of storms have formed near the equator, which is weird, too.