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Why Has It Been So Long Since a Major Hurricane Hit the US?
livescience.com ^ | September 12, 2013 05:05pm ET | Douglas Main, Staff Writer |

Posted on 09/13/2013 8:44:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin

But surprisingly, not a single major hurricane, defined as a Category 3 storm or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale —with minimum wind gusts of at least 111 mph (178 km/h) — has directly hit the United States in nearly eight years. That's twice as long as any major hurricane landfall "drought" since 1915, and by far the longest on record since data began being collected prior to 1900. As of today (Sept. 12), it's been 2,880 days since Hurricane Wilma, the last major hurricane to strike the United States, made landfall on Oct. 24, 2005.

The reasons behind this drought turn out to be a combination of atmospheric wind patterns, how close to the coast hurricanes form and luck.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: 2005; hit; hurricane; hurricanes; major; us; wilma
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1 posted on 09/13/2013 8:44:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Giving us a break after Katrina?


2 posted on 09/13/2013 8:45:54 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

Giving us a break after Katrina?


3 posted on 09/13/2013 8:45:54 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

Let us ask the weather wizard Al Gore.


4 posted on 09/13/2013 8:45:55 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nah. Global Warming reduces the number of severe storms.


5 posted on 09/13/2013 8:46:35 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: BenLurkin

Obama stopped them?


6 posted on 09/13/2013 8:46:43 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: BenLurkin

Because we managed to suppress the Al Qaeda controlled djinn being used to control the hurricanes?
Of course, they have manged to get some successes using tornadoes...
(Actually trying to work on a story along that line...)


7 posted on 09/13/2013 8:46:45 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: BenLurkin

Uhhhh...’cause the icecaps are melting and cooling the ocean...oh, wait...

Bush’s fault!


8 posted on 09/13/2013 8:46:50 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: BenLurkin

Karl Rove shut the African-American Seeking Hurricane Machine off.


9 posted on 09/13/2013 8:47:07 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Don't blame me for McCain.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hussien told us during his 08’ campaign that he would heal the world. Didn’t anyone listen to our Mulatto Messiah?


10 posted on 09/13/2013 8:47:25 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: BenLurkin

Why indeed?

We had a good one in 2005. But the cesspool known as New Orleans is till the SOS.


11 posted on 09/13/2013 8:47:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe God is having fun with the global warming folks who made the predictions of record hurricane seasons right around the fall of 2005?


12 posted on 09/13/2013 8:47:31 AM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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To: BenLurkin

It’s Global Warming..., or Global Cooling..., or good luck..., or Nibiru..., or something else.


13 posted on 09/13/2013 8:47:35 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: BenLurkin
Because 0bama heroically prevented Bush and Carl Rove from using their infernal weather machine?

14 posted on 09/13/2013 8:49:09 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps the “expert” at Colorado State will stop predicting 5-7 major hurricanes every year. Even with the bureaucrats at the National Weather Service naming every time someone passes gas, they can’t come up with any real storms close to the U.S. When will the sequester start chopping the dead wood from agencies like this one?


15 posted on 09/13/2013 8:49:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba. That was pretty intense.


16 posted on 09/13/2013 8:49:19 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: BenLurkin

We’ll, Christie and Obama haven’t milked all the political hype they can out of Sandy yet, and it’s too early for the 2014 congressional elections. Expect to see one in just about one year from now.


17 posted on 09/13/2013 8:49:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BenLurkin

I just assumed there had been several but since they hit red states the media never reported it.


18 posted on 09/13/2013 8:50:12 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I love it when spell check highlights every single word.)
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To: DBrow

Global Warming reduces the number of severe storms.

Except when it doesn’t.

And then, it’s because of Global Warming...


19 posted on 09/13/2013 8:50:44 AM PDT by Paisan
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To: BenLurkin

God thinks we are getting enough disasters with Obama in office?


20 posted on 09/13/2013 8:51:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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