(Bloomberg) -- The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season may end up being remembered for a subpar number of storms, even though the total still beat early forecasts and more than 50 people died.
The season, which also lags behind in terms of overall power, produced Tropical Storm Erika in August that caused at least 20 deaths on Dominica. In October, Hurricane Joaquin sank the freighter El Faro with the loss of 33 in the Bahamas.
“That is a lot in an El Nino year,” said Jeff Masters, co- founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan, referring to the Pacific warming phenomenon.
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