We didn’t see many hurricanes and tropical storms here in the US, but there were 2 category 5 storms in the Atlantic Basin this year.  One of those giant storms, Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua and Honduras as a category 5 storm! 
One of the questions that arose from the 2007 hurricane season is, does La Nina play a part in increasing hurricane season activity or not?  El Nino usually lessens the amount of storms that form in the Atlantic Basin, so it was thought that La Nina does the opposite, this may not be true.  Dr. Lyons put forward this morning, that La Nina may not be as large a factor as originally thought.  It now appears the La Nina may not be much different than a neutral, or non La Nina or non El Nino, season.  In fact, it may be a player in reducing the number of storms.  Just part of the puzzle of this giant global circulation that we are trying to understand.