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Byline: James Janega
CHICAGO _ Hurricane forecasters welcomed the approach of December and the official end of the 2005 hurricane season _ the worst ever recorded in the Atlantic _ then turned immediately to preparations for next year and a dire warning to the public Tuesday:
So far, 2006 in the Atlantic is shaping up to be every bit as bad.
At a news conference in Miami and Washington, D.C., officials at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration described the hyperactive 2005 hurricane season, which closes Wednesday, as essentially two full seasons crammed into one.
NOAA officials dismissed possible connections to global warming from greenhouse gas emissions as a cause for 2005's stormy weather. Instead, they blamed the year's severity on a broad cycle in which equatorial seas warm and cool every 25 to 30 years, as they have since at least 1870.
The current cycle of warming Atlantic water and…
Source: HighBeam Research, Warning about '06 tempers relief over hurricane season's end.