An according to your beloved Wash. post Cletus.
"The extraordinarily busy year is most directly linked to the strong El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which has infused unusually warm water in many parts of that basin, fueling intense storm after intense storm."
We have no influence or control over El Ninos, and you know it.
They are nothing more than weather events
The same El Nino had a opposite effect on the Atlantic season
"El Niño typically reduces Atlantic storm activity through increases in upper-level winds that tear apart hurricanes as they are trying to form.  2015 has been no exception, with overall activity only about 60 percent of normal to date."
see: www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/11/04/the-northern-hemispheres-record-shattering-tropical-cyclone-season-
see: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html