Thank El Nino for mild Atlantic hurricane season
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The surprisingly mild 2006 Atlantic hurricane season ended with a whimper on Thursday and forecasters said it was too early to know if El Nino will last long enough to flatten next year's hurricanes too.
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As expected, the hurricanes made for a bumpy month.
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Storm weary residents of Florida and the rest of the Southeast can take a little consolation from the first forecast of tropical weather for next year.
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A tropical depression brewing over the open Atlantic was nearing tropical storm strength Monday night, forecasters said.
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The relative calm of the just-ended Atlantic hurricane season will be just a short respite before above-average storm activity resumes next year, a noted U.S. hurricane forecasting team said on Friday.
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The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should have above-average activity, with three major hurricanes and a good chance at least one of them will make landfall, a top hurricane researcher said Friday.
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Next year's Atlantic hurricane season  will again be more active than usual but is unlikely to be a  repeat of this year's disaster, a noted storm forecaster said  on Friday.
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The killer storm that slammed into Florida on August 13 made two things clear: Hurricanes can still surprise forecasters, and the rest of the 2004 hurricane season probably is going to be quite active.
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A tropical depression could form in the Atlantic Ocean over the next couple of days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Monday.
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Tropical activity is possible in a couple of days in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a report Tuesday.
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Earth may be close to the warmest it   has been in the last million years, especially in the part of   the Pacific Ocean where potentially violent El Nino weather   patterns are born, climate scientists reported on Monday.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in  the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the  Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino  is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of  the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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MIAMI - No rest for the hurricane weary and worried.  Eight days after the end of a surprisingly mild hurricane season and 13 days before winter begins, a private group of forecasters Friday predicted above average activity for the next hurricane season - which is nearly six months away.
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Nearly eight weeks have passed since the last tropical storm in the Atlantic-Caribbean region faded away, but banish any notion the 2007 hurricane season has been unusually slow and beware the coming months, experts say.
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Tropical Storm Ingrid moved through the open Atlantic early Saturday, but the weak storm was not expected to pose a threat to land, forecasters said.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that La Nina &#151; a cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that generally brings a more active Atlantic hurricane season &#151; will be absent for the next two months.
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Climate scientists agree there have been a lot of strong hurricanes lately. They agree that warmer seas have given these storms some extra punch. But they disagree how much global warming is to blame.