North America’s hurricane season is in full swing, with category-four Jimena looking a threat to Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on the west coast.

The east coast heaved its second sigh of relief in as many weeks as Tropical Storm Danny eased to a rain depression over the weekend after following a similar path to Hurricane Bill.

Bill was similarly downgraded last week as it swept over Canada’s east coast, drenching the land and whipping up strong swells, but not damaging offshore gas platforms as feared.

The hurricane season that began on June 1 and ends on November 30 has until now been relatively calm, a fact attributed by meteorologists to the emergence of the El Nino effect in the Pacific.