Both should have led to a below -
normal number of hurricanes.
Not exact matches
These
hurricanes disrupted
normal airline flight operations, with the largest
number of cancellations occurring the day after
Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, with 4,567 cancellations.
The 2014 Atlantic
hurricane season is expected to be quieter than
normal, with a below - average
number of storms and
hurricanes, a leading U.S.
hurricane forecasting team said last week.
However,
numbers of hurricanes in the North Atlantic have also been above
normal (based on 1981 — 2000 averages) in 9
of the last 11 years, culminating in the record - breaking 2005 season.
So the expert group from the World Meteorological Organization says that they can not detect any change in the
number of hurricanes from
normal in the past.
So the
number of hurricanes remains
normal.