[WOSG]

Hurricane Strikes Per Decade ... this will refute the likely argument that Bush/global-warming or some such nonsense is creating more hurricanes ... there has been an active season, but this decade is less active than 1941-1950 was, and there is no dicernable trend.

Decade	Saffir-Simpson Category1					All 1,2,3,4,5	Major 3,4,5
	1	2	3	4	5
1851-1860	8	5	5	1	0	19	6
1861-1870	8	6	1	0	0	15	1
1871-1880	7	6	7	0	0	20	7
1881-1890	8	9	4	1	0	22	5
1891-1900	8	5	5	3	0	21	8
1901-1910	10	4	4	0	0	18	4
1911-1920	10	4	4	3	0	21	7
1921-1930	5	3	3	2	0	13	5
1931-1940	4	7	6	1	1	19	8
1941-1950	8	6	9	1	0	24	10
1951-1960	8	1	5	3	0	17	8
1961-1970	3	5	4	1	1	14	6
1971-1980	6	2	4	0	0	12	4
1981-1990	9	1	4	1	0	15	5
1991-2000	3	6	4	0	1	14	5
2001-2004	4	2	2	1	0	9	3
1851-2004	109	72	71	18	3	273	92
Average Per Decade	7.1	4.7	4.6	1.2	0.2	17.7	6.0

[shibumi]

Thanks for the chart! Bump for future reference.