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Thankful storm season is over There is a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. And since hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30, one of the things we can be thankful for is that the forcasters missed their calling this year. Weathermen had predicted that the 2006 season would be awful with 13 to 16 named tropical storms, eight to 10 of which would become hurricanes and four to six of those major Category 3, 4 or 5 storms. The Gulf Coast would have been hard presssed to stand another bad year on the heels of two deadly seasons that produced such monsters as Ivan and Katrina. The forecasters are glad they missed their marks but they are also a bit puzzled, given the state-of-the-art tools they use to make predictions. El Nino, the warm water trend in the Pacific Ocean, apparently affected conditions in the Atlantic and helped to tone down the activity. While we can be happy that this season is over, the experts still insist that the trend is for more hurricanes over the next several years, not less. But next year's season doesn't start until June. For now we ought to just be thankful for getting by this year.
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