The Saharan Air Layer definitely was a huge factor in preventing most waves exiting the African coast from developing this year. It was the equivalent of driving an infant tropical storm through the Arizona desert. They never had a chance.
It also shows the lack of value, or at least reliablity, of long term weather forecasting. Nobody saw that coming and predicted it.
It was supposed to be a worse than average storm season according to the experts.
Didn't happen. There could still be a late season surprise, but that would probably be strangest of all.
So a lack of dust is Bush's fault?
Ridiculous. Everyone knows the reason we didn't have any bad hurricanes this year is because Karl Rove was too distracted by the upcoming election to get the hurricane machine working ;)
The prevalence of hurricanes can be explained by Chaos Theory. Everytime AlGore goes on tour, he creates chaos, and the cycle of hurricanes is disrupted.
Ha! Rove traded in his Hurricane Machine for a Dust Machine!
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
Now that the predictions from the Global Warming community that we'd see an even worse hurricatne season this year HAVE BEEN PROVEN COMPLETELY WRONG, new theories are needed to explain to us that the original predictions weren't wrong at all.
Under no circumstances are we allowed to speculate that the Global Warming theory is flawed; it is the Holy of Holies.
What are you going to believe, a "scientific consensus" or your lying eyes?
In other news, Hurricane Researchers revealed "We don't have a FReepin' clue what we're talking about".
And I thought Karl Rove controlled hurricanes!