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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Globull warming advocates deeply disappointed.
Really. Hell, when one of the few to hit lately, Sandy, the alarmist were positively gleeful. We were told that even tho there had been fewer storms, the fact that it hit where it did was proof of, wait for it.....Global Warming!!! Ohhhhh, what to do, what to do? NOW maybe all these deniers will go along with our plans to save the Earth!! Otherwise, they just want to kill babies, starve kids and the elderly and just promote death and destruction worldwide.
What a bunch of....Assholes...that's it. Next time anyone brings up Global warming I'm just gonna call them an Asshole and leave it at that. There's no reasoning with them so why try.
You could be right.
With Detroit, Camden, Philadelphia and East St. Louis coming in a close second.
Al Gore doesn’t need anymore money?
So the decade long cooling trend has nothing to do with it ? Their expert AGW biased conclusion is, luck ?
I just want my home insurance refund because of Hurricanes disasters are not happening.
that’s right. We have been in a period of global warming since the last ice age.
During the last ice age, Chicago was buried under a mile of ice. It took lots of sustained warming to melt it all.
“Why Has It Been So Long Since a Major Hurricane Hit the US?”
All right after Al Gore sold his crap network to Camel News.
Wilma knocked down huge trees on my and neighbors’ houses.
I sat in the backroom in great despair that morning, with no electricity, pondering what to do. I was plunging spiritually, then all of a sudden I heard a chainsaw. I don’t own one. And there was a giant 15 y/o black olive tree on my house at the moment.
I ran out and immediately started helping my back neighbor drag the giant branches to the street as he cut up tree after tree on the few houses in back. After many hours, someone said let’s cut up the tree that fell on my house. I never brought it up. I just helped until their houses were clear.
God does work in mysterious ways. Got to know a few of my neighbors. Nothing like a hurricane to bring neighbors together.
We were out of elec for 2.5 days. But across the street was out for 2 weeks. I ran two ext. chords going across to two neighbors. So they had electricity.
It was interesting, but not too fun. But good experience.
Because there isn’t a Republican in the White House, silly.
Because Bush is no longer President.
Have to put this in context. The Global Warmers were ecstatic that our 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons were so intense. We even had billboards in Orlando that blamed GLOBAL WARMING, and George Bush (believe it or not) and that we would expect more of the same in the coming years.
Then... nothing. This year tied for the latest formation of a Cat 1 hurricane since records were kept. The Left and the Warmers are beside themselves and are now reduced to blaming “luck” for our lack of hurricanes.
Climate Change.... It’s not always for the worse
Ike may have come in one mph below a Cat 3 but the storm surge was the equivalent of at least a 4 and moved a lot of Galveston from the Gulf to the Bay. Heard several reporters from out of town who were reporting at the time that there seemed to be minimal damage, but they didn’t know the before versus the after. Many of us are still trying to recover - 5 years later.
Much of the damage from Katrina was because the levee system didn’t function as it should, not because of the storm.
Since we are now at the 5 year anniversary of Ike, there has been much local discussion. Galveston reportedly could be protected from future surge damage for only about $16 Billion dollars.
When they hit, it’s global warming climate change.
When they don’t , it’s “luck”.
I was visiting the woman who is now my wife and left the area on Labor Day, just a few days before it hit. Moved down to the area three weeks later once the power was restored.
Good timing on your part. Neil Frank, the retired weatherman who is one of the few that seems to be able to figure out what is going to happen with the weather, was a part of the remembrance on TV this week. He commented that if the weather people would have shared what they should have known, but obviously couldn’t figure out, they would have included information on the potential storm surge and more people would have evacuated.
Probably one of the reasons he was retired - he has a depth of knowledge the rest of them don’t seem to possess - plus he is a very nice man, Conservative Christian, and doesn’t believe in climate change. Just totally out of step with the current broadcast crew.
Sure wouldn’t know it by my homeowner’s insurance rates, not to mention the improvements I’ve had to make just to get insurance.
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