ACE: A New Way To Measure Hurricane Season Strength

As the 2009 Atlantic Basin hurricane season draws to a close, meteorologists are in agreement that it has been a quiet season. But what determines whether a season is quiet or busy? Simple methods can be used, such as counting the number of storms that form in a season, or the number of hurricanes, but these statistics don`t always tell the whole story. …FULL STORY

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