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Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average years for Atlantic storms,

Gregg Easterbrook

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest on record with a total of 27 named storms of which 15 became hurricanes, including seven major hurricanes.

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Category 4 and 5 storms are also making up a larger share of the total number of hurricanes. Category 4 and 5 hurricanes made up about 20% of all hurricanes in the 1970s, but over the last decade they accounted for about 35% of these storms.

[There has been no overall increase in the number of tropical storms over the past three decades, but] Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are making up a larger share of the total number of hurricanes, ... made up about 20 percent of all hurricanes in the 1970s, but over the last decade they account for about 35 percent of these storms.

In the past two years we've had two unlucky years. Globally, storms aren't getting worse, just in the Atlantic.

It's going to be above average. The wind shear is pretty low and the Atlantic is pretty warm, so it will be an active month. You will get a couple of storms before the season is over.

Philip Klotzbach

The average number of intense storms is two. We predict we're going to have more than two -- three or more of these intense hurricanes.

James Baker (1930-)

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

We sometimes get used to tracking the Cape Verde storms that come all the way across the Atlantic. But some storms seem to come up out of nowhere.

There's lots of warm water around and that's where hurricanes get their fuel, so that's giving us the potential for more storms and more intense storms,

With La Nina, you can expect not only more storms than average, but stronger storms, as well.

This in turn has led to a number of Atlantic Ocean and global oceanic circulation changes that have brought on more major storms during the past four years. The pattern is very similar to what was occurring in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

This hurricane season shattered records that have stood for decades-most named storms, most hurricanes and most category 5 storms. Arguably, it was the most devastating hurricane season the country has experienced in modern times,

Conrad Lautenbacher

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