[SandRat]

BEARE!!

NATE may make it #3!

[Texas Eagle]

Hard to say. The U.S. was far less populated in 1850. Could’ve been a dozen Cat 4 hurricanes some years but with so few people around to report them, Hu knew?

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

after 100mph one cannot tell the difference

[ealgeone]

It’s important to reiterate that because NHC assigns intensity using 5-kt increments (and will be doing so for the foreseeable future), neither storms in the historical record nor any future storms would have their SSHWS category changed as a result of this adjustment. Changing the Category 4 range to 130-156 mph, 113-136 kt, and 209-251 km/h simply allows all unit conversions from knots to be done correctly and keep storms in the correct category, regardless of the units used.

Guess they overlooked this part.

[RightGeek]

LOL - typical MSM foolishness

[maine-iac7]

So we had 167 years without this happening again - after all those colonials and cowboys and Indians stopped driving their SUVs in 1850....

[Elsie]

...and even Scientific American. 

SA has spewed the leftist crap for a LONG time now.

I subscribed for decades; but the shift away from Science to 'science' got so bad that I gave up on it during John Rennie's (seventh editor-in-chief, 1994–2009) first couple of years at the helm.

An editorial in the September 2016 issue of Scientific American has attacked US Presidential candidate Donald Trump for alleged "anti-science" attitudes and rhetoric. This marks the first time that the publication has forayed into commenting on US presidential politics. ^[17]

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American