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The few August thunderstorm candidates were unavailable due to technical difficulties
and therefore we thought it would be worthwhile to view a year-to-year Sea Surface
Temperature Anomaly comparison courtesy of the Navy. As you may or may not be
aware, the second half of the hurricane season became quite active this year due
to the development of La Nina. The images below compare the late September
Anomalies of 1997 and 1998. It is quite obvious that the warm El Nino of 1997 has
been clearly replaced by the cool La Nina extending along the equator from the
west coast of South America. Should this pattern persist for the next year, many
forecasters believe that the hurricane season of 1999 will be one to remember.
El Nino of Sept.1997(top) replaced by La Nina of
Sept.1998(bottom)...scales are in Degrees Celsius
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