property as they prepare for potential landfall for tropical storm karen. >> reporter: karen is the 11th named storm in what has been an unusually quiet hurricane season this year with only ingrid and humberto becoming full hurricanes so far. last year superstorm sandy hit the northeast in late october. forecasters don't know why this year has been so quiet but say another situation like sandy is extremely unlikely. >> this is really the peak or at least the end of the peak of hurricane season right now. we are still in it. there will be more storms this year. >> reporter: fredricka, the biggest change, the winds are picking up on the coastline. we have karen pretty far offshore, still about 100 miles off the coast of louisiana. currently it has actually weakened 60-mile-per-hour winds. still, though, it has the ability to strengthen into a category 1 hurricane. the important thing to note whether this is a strong tropical storm or weak