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Quiet Hurricane Season Ends

It appears as if Central Florida made it through another year without a major storm. November 30th is the official last day of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. The number of storms this season fell below predictions. Renowned hurricane forecaster William Grey and his team from Colorado State University predicted 12 named storms with six of those becoming hurricanes. The season actually produced nine named storms and three hurricanes. Hurricane prognosticators say they based their early projections on long-range factors in the Atlantic Basin which have spawned more storms over the past 20 years. But, they say, an El Nino system developed in the Pacific which helped to suppress tropical storm formation. The 2009 hurricane season got off to a late start. The first storm didn't occur until August 12 when Tropical Storm Ana formed in the South Atlantic. That was the latest date for the first storm of the season since 1992. Only two storms made landfall in the United States. Tropical Storm Claudette struck the Florida Panhandle on August 17th and Hurricane Ida struck the Alabama coast in early November. The 2010 storm season begins June 1st.

 

 

 

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