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<div>Some think that the slow hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this year is an indicator that global warming is not increasing storm intensity or number, but the Pacific season this year suggests otherwise.</div>
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<div>While the predictions from NOAA of an above average hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin have been down graded, with not one major hurricane hitting the US this season so far, the Pacific has seen a large number of typhoons and hurricanes, and monster super typhoons. Two of the most intense were Super Typhoon Saomai, which was the worst super typhoon to hit China in fifty years, and Hurricane/Super Typhoon Ioke (it formed in the East Pacific as a Cat. Five where these storms are called "hurricanes," and sustained long enough to pass into the West Pacific, also as a Cat. 5, becoming a "typhoon," eventually circling around causing beach erosion along the Western Alaskan shore), a record setting hurricane/typhoon that, when measured for its total energy given its strength, size and duration, was a massively powerful storm, though it only menaced some islands in the Pacific, Wake Island among them, which was totally evacuated for the first time in years.
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<div>Now we have Super Typhoon Cimaron hitting the Phillipines as I write, with sustained winds of 160 mph.</div>
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<div>Link to info on Cimaron:</div>
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<div><a href="http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/warnings/wp2206sa.gif">http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/warnings/wp2206sa.gif</a></div>
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<div>And links to info on the Pacific 2006 Hurricane/Typhoon season:</div>
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<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season</a></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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