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.
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The whiners are still getting mileage out of Katrina, or trying to.
*rolls eyes*
Global Warming!
That wasn’t Karl Rove, that was Dick Cheney’s H.H.G., Halliburton Hurricane Generator, that was responsible.
Currently, it is forecast to move inland into Mexico and dissipate.
It just has to change directions to threaten Texas, Louisiana, as well as other Gulf of Mexico states.
Translation: “We predicted lots of Global Warming, and massive hurricanes. We’re looking bad. Gaia, why do you mock us so?”
It’s simple. It’s because hurricanes are completely natural phenomenon and have ZERO to do with CO2 concentrations. The left can’t handle the truth.
They’re afraid to turn on HAARP after Jesse Ventura went up there and exposed it?
To add to that, there is a reason they’re not as prevalent. There is a cycle. We don’t understand it. As you say, it has nothing to do with AGW, because AGW isn’t true.
Has there been global warming? Certainly! Thousands of times over the past several million years we’ve massively and dramatically warmed up because the ice melted! Lather, rinse, repeat....
See, we’re still in an ice age.
People tend to forget that there’s nothing special about the current interglacial we’re in right now. The ice will return someday.
Luck?
:: The reasons behind this drought turn out to be a combination of atmospheric wind patterns, how close to the coast hurricanes form and luck. ::
Conveniently avoiding any reference to solar activity.
But But But... Sandy was a “Super” Storm! That’s gotta be worse than a major storm. Besides, it hit such an important place!
Fear not, I just moved to southern Florida 2 weeks ago, which means the hurricanes should be starting up any minute now!
I thought glaobal warming was the reason we had “W”ilma, with a W that year.
Everything reverts to the mean.
Everything.
We had a couple of tough years. We will have a couple of good years, a couple of mild years, and then some tough ones again.
The time to prepare is during the dips.
Hurricane Ike wasn’t a major hurricane? That would surprise a lot of people in the greater Houston area. That was in 2008.
Was Ike CAT 3 or higher?
Just looked it up, it was one mph below a Cat 3. Was the third most costly storm in terms of damage ever in the US.
Because Carl Rove is not near his hurricane steering machine anymore..?
New Orleans is the most beautiful city in America, and one of the four pillars of American culture.
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