02:46:23 pm, by Bill O'Connor 
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The U.S. has been blessed with a mild start to the hurricane season, with NOAA downgrading it's seasonal forcast for Tropical Storm activity in the Atlantic. The predictions for this year are still higher than the long term average, but until August 14th, Hurricane Alley could not spawn a hurricane due to a missing key ingredient in hurricane formation - sea surface temperatures.
For a Hurricane to form, the sea surface water temperature must reach and maintain a temperature of 82° F, referred to as "Hurricane Ready Sea Surface Temperature". During the first two weeks of August 2006, imagery from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) aboard the NASA's Aqua Sattelite confirmed that the sea surface temperatures crossed the 82° threshhold over a widespread area of the tropical Atlantic - enough to fuel and sustain a tropical storm to hurricane level.
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