How many hurricanes

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/2006epac.shtml

I keep reading and hearing references to the 2nd (now 3rd) hurricane of the season.

What they should say is the 3rd (or whatever) Pacific hurricane of the season.
There have already been 7 in the eastern Pacific, several of which were confined to the ocean w/o making landfall.
Then there have been a bunch in the middle and western Pacific, which have battered Japan and China. A couple of weeks ago, there were 4 tropical storms and hurricanes over there in one week, at least three at the same time. I think three of them were hurricanes (not sure now).

Super Typhoon Ioke, which lasted for two weeks, and reached category 5 strength, plowed across the Pacific, circled up the Asian coast and around the Artic, finally pounding Alaska! If there was any mention of this on msnbc.com or news.yahoo.com, I missed it. The reason I know it hit Alaska was that when it disappeared from wunderground.com, when it got too far north, I found it on a Japanese weather site:
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/
When it disappeared from there, I did a search and found it had ended up in Alaska
http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_4303106
http://blogs.woodtv.com/wordpress/?p=643

Our news media can surely be parochial, but how they ignored something as fascinating as Ioke's path, ending in Alaska, I just don't understand.