CAN ANYONE SAY “GLOBAL COOLING”?
Tropical storm Gabrielle fizzles: Why has hurricane season been so calm? (+video)
Tropical storm Gabrielle was the seventh Atlantic tropical cyclone this season, but no hurricanes have yet formed, which is unusual. Another 10 hurricane-free days would set a record.
And here is why:
This satellite image shows tropical storm Gabrielle moving east toward the Dominican Republic Wednesday. The storm has since been downgraded to a tropical depression.
NASA GOES Project/Reuters
The weather system that had become tropical storm Gabrielle overnight Wednesday has abruptly lost strength and was demoted to tropical-depression status with sustained winds of only 35 miles per hour at 11 a.m. Thursday.
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