I've read (and noted over the years) that there is a correlation between El Nino years and a simultaneous increase of East Pacific and Central Pacific hurricanes and a decrease in Atlantic hurricanes. Last season, 2006, was such a year. I can understand the increase in eastern and central Pacific storms from the increased sea temperatures but has anyone in science
postulated or hypothesized or theorized why the decrease in Atlantic storms, being that the Atlantic/Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico is between 300 to 358 degrees east of the closest range of El Nino but prevailing winds both at the surface and at upper atmosphere are continually east to west?
2007-03-19
06:27:19
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Hank
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