It’s natural enough for a New Orleans resident to regard a hurricane season that doesn’t wallop the US, particularly the New Orleans region, as a good one. Some provincialism of that sort is in a roundup story by the Times-Picayune’s Mark Schleifstein, but overall it’s a fine summary of things. It includes comparative maps of storm tracks for the last three years, plenty on the uncertainties of cyclone prediction, and recognition that while the numbers were down, two deadly and powerful storms did roar through the Southern Caribbean and into Mexico and Central America.

The Tracker would like to have seen a bit on global stats for the same three years, including typhoons and cyclones in the Indian and western Pacific oceans. Nonetheless this is a good, technically sound piece with specific local info readers can use.

Grist for the Mill: NOAA Press Release ;

-CP

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