An ENSO-Forecast Independent Statistical Model for the Prediction of Annual Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Frequency in April

<table>Relationship between the standardized March LHF in ETP and the standardized annual counts of Atlantic TCs. A negative correlation between the two is clearly shown.</table>

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Figure 1: An ENSO-Forecast Independent Statistical Model for the Prediction of Annual Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Frequency in April 