Posted on 08/22/2015 8:24:04 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Friday afternoon, Danny became the first major hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, after it was upgraded to a Category 3 storm. It's still very far out in the Atlantic, and so far there's no sign it'll pose a threat to the United States.
That leads to a question: When was the last time a big hurricane hit the U.S.?
It might surprise you, but the country is experiencing a historic, nine-year lucky streak when it comes to major hurricanes.
In fact, the last Category 3 or stronger storm to hit the U.S. happened on Oct. 24, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma made landfall in Florida. (It's worth noting that despite this respite, the U.S. has still seen very costly hurricanes — such as Ike and Sandy — that didn't meet the "major" threshold.)
Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist who helps put out closely watched hurricane predictions at Colorado State University, said the last time you could spot a lull of this kind in recorded history was 1861 to 1868.
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knock on wood...remember that Sandy hit almost at Halloween.......
knock on wood...remember that Sandy hit almost at Halloween.......
Global warming, no doubt. Or global cooling. Or El Nino or La Nina. Or just luck. Take your pick.
categories be damned ... i remember VAST DEVASTATION in the houston area after IKE in 2008
Whichever one offers the liberal set the most money and control is the one they’ll pick.
You know sometimes just being a Cat 3 storm isn’t enough to be designated to be a “MAJOR” Hurricane. Ask us in SE Texas if Ike was one in 2008.
Wasn't it Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth[sic] which taught us that as global warming increased, there would be more and more hurricanes striking the continental United States?
And aren't the fine toadies and stooges at NOAA and elsewhere, continually, breathlessly telling us that every *day* sets a new high temperature record (despite the contradictory data from satellites which show no net global warming for ...what? 18 years now?) ...
So is the warming incorrect, or was Gore wrong?
Lucky?
GLOBAL WARMING
straight from NPR.
When they miss us, it’s lucky. When they hit us it is due to man made global warming, which only big corrupt government can fix.
The first hurricane, period. A, B & C never made it above tropical storm.
NPR, always pushing...
A lack of solar activity sure is lucky.
Simultaneous luck for fewer typhoons in the Pacific is pretty nice.
One of my pet peeves is calling “Sandy” a super storm...
It was barely a category one...
Granted the storm surge was very bad, partially a case of bad timing on the tides and wind direction...
Also the area of surge damage was small compared to other major storms...
But it happened in the Northeast so it was a special storm...a SUPER storm...
Yes just like all the media hype of Katrina was chocolate town but look what happened in Mississippi.
Yup...if I remember correctly the damage from the surge in the Mississippi coast was up to 10 miles inland...
If ever three major hurricanes hit within one year, I’m sure NPR will put a story about a streak of bad luck without a mention of global warming.
a few years ago El Nino did not fit the global warming model. So the extremists stated El Nino was irrelevant to global warming. 2015 El Nino has been the cause of a very hot summer in North America. So now extremists flip and say El Nino is global warming.
Why don’t they talk about Ike in 2008? Many of us still haven’t recovered from this and our rates for mandatory wind insurance from the State of Texas continue to rise every year.
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