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Hello and welcome to Positively Dreadful, I'm your host Brian Boyler.

This mid-October now, and that means we're climbing down from the peak of Atlantic

Hurricane season, which runs usually from June through November.

And until a couple weeks ago, you could say 2022 was a pretty mild year without catching

any dirty looks.

Even accounting for Hurricane Ian, you can still kind of ballpark it as a relatively

quiet season for major storms.

The National Hurricane Center assigns names to storms every year alphabetically and alternating

by gender.

So, to make up names at random, Albert comes before Bethany, then Carl and then Daphne

and so on and so on.

And you can tell it was shaping up to be a slower than expected year because Ian made landfall

on September 28th.

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