[sig226]

“Despite fairly inactive 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons, we believe that the Atlantic basin is still in an active hurricane cycle,” Gray said.

Who needs reality, anyway?

[dufekin]

Those active “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” cycles last for decades but include several inactive seasons, and 2006 and 2007 were “fairly inactive” only by the standards of the active phase of the multidecadal cycle but unusually severe by the standards of the inactive phase.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

What you are failing to understand is that Mother Nature got it wrong and Gray was correct all along. Is there any other business where we would be looking (with a straight face) to the same guy for next year that was totally wrong last year? Dick Morris doesn’t count! ;-)