Frequency of U.S. Hurricanes Not Increasing: Hurricane Experts (Graphs)

FactReal ^ | 10/4/2022 | FactReal

[FactReal]

Researchers:

• Hurricanes are NOT increasing in frequency nor intensity, data shows.

• Increase in hurricane damage is due to more people living along the U.S. coastline.

MAIN POINTS from a 2018 research article from the American Meteorological Society:

While neither U.S. landfalling hurricane frequency nor intensity shows a significant trend since 1900, growth in coastal population and wealth have led to increasing hurricane-related damage along the U.S. coastline.

[T]here is an insignificant trend in CONUS landfalling hurricanes from 1900-2017 (Fig. 2a)…[and] (Fig.2b). We therefore conclude that the large increase in observed hurricane-associated inflation-adjusted CONUS damage (Pielke et al. 2008) is primarily due to increases in exposure as opposed to increasing frequency or intensity of hurricanes making CONUS landfall.

Figures 2a and 2b: The dotted lines represent linear trends over the period:

We created graphs to show the data up to the 2020s
– We used a red line to indicate the trend of the hurricanes that have impacted the Continental United States (CONUS) each decade since 1900.

[dsrtsage]

I am sure less frequent and intense hurricanes affects women and minorities hardest and is worse than we thought somehow. Perhaps we can determine how bad it will be with further funding for more research.

[libertylover]

further funding for more research.

Global warning hoax is a double win for Democrats. The left-wing college professors get more research money, and the Democrats get closer to totalitarian control.

[Loyalist]

Nature’s refusal to follow the climate models cannot go unchallenged. It is flagrant contempt of science. Humanity must spare no effort to change the weather, and the entire climate if necessary, to prevent man-made climate change!