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"Its re-classification was not related to any particular time of the season," Feltgen told me. "NHC specialists are consummate professionals and would never name (or not name) a tropical cyclone for the sole purpose of verifying a product."

With all due respect, Feltgen (at this point not much respect is due), your "product" and your weasely explanation are defective.

[excalibur1701]

I suppose if you do enough predicting, you will eventually get it right. Then they will come back and say, I told you so.