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Why no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. this season

For the first time since 2015, no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S., despite forecasters predicting an above-average season this year.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Matt Simon, senior staff writer at Grist, about what factors allowed the U.S. to skirt disaster this time around.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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