From the AP: The biggest story about hurricanes you might have missed

Here is the title from the article by Seth Borenstein: "STUDY: ARE WE SHIFTING TO FEWER, WEAKER ATLANTIC HURRICANES?" Here is an excerpt:

     The Atlantic looks like it is entering in to a new quieter cycle of storm activity, like in the 1970s and 1980s [emphasis added], two prominent hurricane researchers wrote Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
     Scientists at Colorado State University, including the professor who pioneered hurricane seasonal prognostication, say they are seeing a localized cooling and salinity level drop in the North Atlantic near Greenland. Those conditions, they theorize, change local weather and ocean patterns and form an on-again, off-again cycle in hurricane activity that they trace back to the late 1800s.
     Warmer saltier produces periods of more and stronger storms followed by cooler less salty water triggering a similar period of fewer and weaker hurricanes, the scientists say. The periods last about 25 years, sometimes more, sometimes less. The busy cycle that just ended was one of the shorter ones, perhaps because it was so strong that it ran out of energy, said study lead author Phil Klotzbach.