HEAR YE, HEAR YE: This year’s hurricane season will be slower than usual, fewer ‘canes and such. But I can’t be shouting that to the rooftops. Hurricanes have amazing hearing. If they get wind that humanity has scheduled them to have a docile year, it’ll be Katy batten down the hatches. And if they hear the prediction was announced on LBI …

While there’s nary a jot of science behind such cosmic they’ll-hear-me thinking, it still has as much merit as prognostications bred of a good science upbringing. It’s always a ‘cane crapshoot.

Long-range meteorologists are unusually aligned this year, with the main movers and groovers in the cyclonic divining…