We be ler'n more 'bout 'Canes

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Hurricane Felix was not even a depression until it arrived a few hundred miles east of the Windward Antilles. Behind it is another cyclonic action that could become something 'tropical' once it arrives in the same warm water.

Storms that roll off Africa encounter water that is at New Jersey ocean temperatures. These storms attract no attention until warmer water is found. Warmer water of the Caribbean has created some hurricanes such as Dean - a category 5. But most storms have still continued across Central America to create eight tropical storms and eleven tropical depressions. One even threatened Hawaii.

Unlike 2005, Atlantic water has been cooler. Even the Caribbean and Gulf have been cooler. Current storm track does not even threaten anything north of Cuba. Felix will probably cross Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Next mid-Atlantic storm is following and probably will be ignored until it also finds the same warm water that energized Felix.