“How does DelMarVa escape over the decades?”
That struck me too, and only one in New Jersey. Only one between Nag’s Head NC and New York. Is it because of the indentation of the coast?
“...because of the indentation of the coast?”
My first thought.
I would be interesting to see a plot of river water outflow volume.
Maybe having the Chesapeake Bay behind the DMV Peninsula helps too?
Because to get a hurricane to move left (west) that far north you need a very strong high pressure to the north and no low to the west (which drives storms north)
Climatology that’s rare in that location
Hurricane sandy in 2012 found that gap but it lost its tropical characteristics by the time it hit southern NJ so it’s referred to as a Superstorm sandy