Interesting article… I saw something like it in the local paper.
I think we place such an artistic emphasis on hurricanes and their global relations that we in some sense refuse to let ourselves understand them. It is almost as if such knowledge could only lead to disaster. Are hurricanes beyond understanding? Yes, you have trade wind patterns, enso, etc, but when it really comes down to it, what do we really know? I suppose, to quote Sophocles, "we shall either find what we are looking for, or we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."