Aren't all desert dwellers hurricane experts?
LOL.....great one, CC.
The closest these ragheads will ever get to anything resembling a hurricane is at windy end of a camel.
We Americans get the other 90%!
A Russian immigrant once pointed out to me that in Russia there is no weather ~ just seasons ~ as Americans would think of weather. He said he'd seen more damaging thunderstorms and hail in 2 years living in Northern Virginia than he'd seen in 40 years of life in Moscow.
He found it invigorating and it'd gotten him into the habit of watching the television weather programs.
Accordingly we should expect just about all the funny little foreign people in the Old World to be a bit naive about a real man's weather. Still, it's ridiculous for even an Arab to state so authoritatively that: "A hundred years ago, there were seldom more than a handful of tropical storms annually. Everybody knows that only those that hit shore were counted, with most such storms staying far at sea ~ just as happens today. Even after the airplane was invented many tropical storms were simply missed. It took satellites to reveal the full extent of what's going on out there.