The Atlantic hurricane season has one month left.

To date, we've had three major hurricanes, Category 3 or higher: Bertha, Gustav and Ike; two hurricanes: Dolly and Kyle; and 10 tropical storms: Arthur, Cristobal, Edouard, Fay, Hanna, Laura, Marco, Nana and Omar.

The storms and the floods that came with them killed at least 400 people, most of them in Haiti, which got slammed three times, by Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Property damage estimates remain preliminary, but Hurricane Dolly alone caused upwards of $1 billion in damage. The most recent estimate for Ike could be as high as $21 billion, according to Risk Management Solutions. That would make Ike the third most expensive storm in U.S. history, behind Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Andrew (2002).

July was slightly more active than normal; August was about average. Some oddities: Tropical Storm Arthur kicked off on May 31, the day before the 2008 season's official start. A June storm forms in the Atlantic basin about every other year, according to the National Hurricane Center.

A few of the storms seemed to go on forever. Hurricane Bertha, with maximum winds of 120 mph, lasted 17 days. It was the third longest-lived July tropical cyclone in the Atlantic on record. Ike lasted 14 days.

After the season wraps on Nov. 30, I'll be back with an overall look and what forecasters have to say about 2008 – and what may shape up for 2009.