(Bloomberg) -- The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season may end upbeing remembered for a subpar number of storms, even though thetotal still beat early forecasts and more than 50 people died.
The season, which also lags behind in terms of overall power,produced Tropical Storm Erika in August that caused at least 20deaths on Dominica. In October, Hurricane Joaquin sank thefreighter El Faro with the loss of 33 in the Bahamas.
“That is a lot in an El Nino year,” said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan, referring tothe Pacific warming phenomenon.
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