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Scientists tracked fewer extreme storms in 2013

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(Washington) — 2013 was a relatively quiet year for extreme weather events.

Jake Crouch, a climate scientist for NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, says hurricanes were not a significant factor last year.

“We haven’t seen this few hurricanes in almost 20 years,” he says. “So, we’d have to go back more than two decades to have a comparable hurricane season in the North Atlantic to what we had in 2013.”

Crouch says last year also saw the fewest tornadoes since 1989.

However, he notes there were seven weather-related disasters with damages totaling at least one billion dollars each. Five of them involved tornadoes.

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