Figure 2. Note the categories are based on what recorded in HURDAT data

different color for each decade

Figure 2 addition. Figure 3. (top) total named storms over Atlantic Ocean; (bottom) named storms in specific areas

Average for ASO (August, Sept. Oct.) of 1980-2009	Trajactories for all the named storms since 1980 through Caribbean

Figure 5. (Left)Average SST, geopotential height at 1000 hpa, 500 hpa in August, September, October every decade; (Right) Trajectories of named storms every decade.

Figure with 500hpa height Average for ASO (August, Sept. Oct.) of 1980-2009	Trajactories for all the named storms since 1980 through Caribbean

Figure 5 larger Area. (Left)Average SST, geopotential height at 1000 hpa, 500 hpa in August, September, October every decade; (Right) Trajectories of named storms every decade.

	ENSO years since 1980
	ENSO years since 1980

Figure 6. For ENSO years Since 1980, i.e., /2004,2006,1986,1987,1994,2002,1982,1991,1997,2009/

Caribbean Area	Whole World

Figure 5 new: Map of 925 hPa peak wind speed at each location sampled only from days with tropical storms in the Caribbean basin.

Map of 10m peak wind speed at each location sampled only from days with tropical storms in the Caribbean basin.


Table 1. ENSO years (Source: http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm)

El Niño			La Niña
Weak	Mod	Strong	Weak	Mod	Strong
1951	1986	1957	1950	1954	1955
1963	1987	1965	1956	1964	1973
1968	1994	1972	1962	1970	1975
1969	2002	1982	1967	1998	1988
1976		1991	1971	1999
1977		1997	1974	2007
2004		2009	1984
2006			1995
			2000

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