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Old 09-27-2005, 12:04 AM   #14
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You can still get pretty nasty hurricanes in off-peak times, but most will happen within that period. This was the case with most bad recorded hurricane seasons. We are lucky enough where, in the 19th century, steamship operators began to chart the speed and temperature of the surface water, because that directly affected how much force the wheel could move at ... so these trends are recorded back into the 1850s, but it's expected that is gone on for quite some time, since the continents shifted the way that they did.

What this means, unfortunately, is that we can expect another 8 - 10 years of nasty hurricanes.
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