While there have been a few active days this year, the severe weather season has been rather quiet to date thus far. The featured chart depicts the number of Storm Prediction Center issued Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Watches for the year to date period each year since 1997 (start of modern period of record). This year's total is just about half the total of the previous lowest accumulation year.

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