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The quietest hurricane year in a decade officially ends in three weeks, but meteorologists and disaster managers on the Gulf and Florida coasts agree that the season is already over.
"We dodged a bullet this year," says meteorologist Gerry Bell of the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. "If there was ever a time that we needed a break, we got one."
After nine Atlantic storms that mostly stayed out to sea, there hasn't been another since Hurricane Isaac in late September.
The month of November, last of the season's six months, is also its lightest, averaging less than one storm every two years since the 1850s. Forecasters see little likelihood of another storm this year.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-07-hurricane-season_x.htm?csp=1
"We dodged a bullet this year," says meteorologist Gerry Bell of the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. "If there was ever a time that we needed a break, we got one."
After nine Atlantic storms that mostly stayed out to sea, there hasn't been another since Hurricane Isaac in late September.
The month of November, last of the season's six months, is also its lightest, averaging less than one storm every two years since the 1850s. Forecasters see little likelihood of another storm this year.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-07-hurricane-season_x.htm?csp=1