[Sgt_Schultze]

I picked that one too, but because it's duration was very short. The crazy thing about it was her certainty that hurricanes would get stronger in the future. As if, in our short time on this continent, we understand what is actually normal. We know hurricanes have been getting more costly. But that's due to our building expensive property where hurricanes occur.

On a long-term basis, we don't know if it's normal for successive cat5 hurricanes, or even converging, simultaneous multiple hurricanes. Over time, we simply have NO reliable long-term data upon which to say what it is that describes normal hurricane activity. We only have knowledge of what has been said over the last 600 years.

[palmer]

We know hurricanes have been getting more costly. But that's due to our building expensive property where hurricanes occur.

True, Pielke normalized for that and found that the most expensive hurricane remains Miami 1925 (or some year close to that).