| | MiamiHerald.com | 11/27/2005 | Years of intense storms likely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The official hurricane season is almost over, but the long-term crisis is just beginning, and more storms will threaten South Florida. |
 | | Most scientists believe the ''switch'' that turbocharged the hurricane engine in recent years was a combination of supportive wind patterns and the cyclical return of elevated sea-surface temperatures across a key swath of the Atlantic -- a rise of less than one degree, but enough to pump high-octane fuel into developing storms. |
 | | And now, with the official season ending but the long-term crisis still at an early stage, he and other experts sympathize with those who lost their lives to hurricanes in New Orleans, Biloxi and elsewhere, including South Florida. |
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