sentences:  All three groups cited the effects of the ongoing La Niña, as well as the continuation of a multi-decadal decline in Pacific hurricane activity, as their reasoning behind the below-average forecasts.The 2008 Pacific hurricane season was relatively quiet overall, with 16 named storms, 7 hurricanes, 2 major hurricanes, and an ACE index of 83 units in the East Pacific; 1 tropical storm formed in the Central Pacific.The main contributing factor to a slower season was the 2007–08 La Niña event in the equatorial Pacific; although cold ocean temperature anomalies dissipated during the early summer of 2008, a La Niña-like atmospheric circulation persisted.