NU Online News Service, Dec. 20, 3:59 p.m. EST
While forecasts for this past hurricane season were largely accurate regarding the number of storms, shorter term weather patterns managed to steer these storms away from the U.S., according to a story that will appear in National Underwriter magazine.
The story, written by Peter Dailey, assistant vice president, director of atmospheric science at AIR Worldwide, notes that the jet stream's position over North America acted as a barrier that kept many storms over open water this past hurricane season.
In addition, Mr. Dailey writes that in 2010, the "Bermuda High"--a large semi-permanent center of high atmospheric pressure in the eastern Atlantic near the Azores (and roughly at the latitude of Bermuda)--was, at times, situated further east than usual, and was also occasionally weaker than usual.
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