[Beowulf9]

knock on wood...remember that Sandy hit almost at Halloween.......

[Beowulf9]

knock on wood...remember that Sandy hit almost at Halloween.......

[ilovesarah2012]

Global warming, no doubt. Or global cooling. Or El Nino or La Nina. Or just luck. Take your pick.

[TheRightGuy]

categories be damned ... i remember VAST DEVASTATION in the houston area after IKE in 2008

[catfish1957]

You know sometimes just being a Cat 3 storm isn’t enough to be designated to be a “MAJOR” Hurricane. Ask us in SE Texas if Ike was one in 2008.

[grey_whiskers]

What a cretin.

Wasn't it Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth[sic] which taught us that as global warming increased, there would be more and more hurricanes striking the continental United States?

And aren't the fine toadies and stooges at NOAA and elsewhere, continually, breathlessly telling us that every *day* sets a new high temperature record (despite the contradictory data from satellites which show no net global warming for ...what? 18 years now?) ...

So is the warming incorrect, or was Gore wrong?

[MarvinStinson]

Lucky?

[Moonman62]

When they miss us, it’s lucky. When they hit us it is due to man made global warming, which only big corrupt government can fix.

[Ready4Freddy]

"Danny became the first major hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, after it was upgraded to a Category 3 storm"

The first hurricane, period. A, B & C never made it above tropical storm.

NPR, always pushing...

[MrEdd]

A lack of solar activity sure is lucky.
Simultaneous luck for fewer typhoons in the Pacific is pretty nice.

[Popman]

One of my pet peeves is calling “Sandy” a super storm...

It was barely a category one...

Granted the storm surge was very bad, partially a case of bad timing on the tides and wind direction...

Also the area of surge damage was small compared to other major storms...

But it happened in the Northeast so it was a special storm...a SUPER storm...

[oh8eleven]

the country is experiencing a historic, nine-year lucky streak when it comes to major hurricanes.
Why isn't climate change the cause? Because something good is the result of something "evil?"

[seowulf]

If ever three major hurricanes hit within one year, I’m sure NPR will put a story about a streak of bad luck without a mention of global warming.

[Grams A]

Why don’t they talk about Ike in 2008? Many of us still haven’t recovered from this and our rates for mandatory wind insurance from the State of Texas continue to rise every year.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"There's a hint that there has been enhanced troughy-ness over the Eastern U.S. So large scale, long term, it does seem like there is a little something there that may be able to steer some storms away from the States," McNoldy said.

But, he warns, this is a tiny deviation — a less than 1 percent change — in a long-term average. It means that on any given day or week, that measurement could have been different, able to steer a storm toward the East Coast.

Grasping at straws to save a failing theory, iow.

[Chode]

lucky streak??? i thought it was climate change...

[upchuck]

They repeatedly refer to how "lucky" this has been for the US.

I disagree completely.

Providence.

[arthurus]

It is so "lucky" that the sunspot cycle is in its hibernation mode and the atmosphere and oceans have been cooling to a level that does not support so many storms.

like it is

[justa-hairyape]

The left refers to science as luck. No wonder they are clueless about the real world.

[D.A.Veteran]

Growing up in the 70s and being educated by the then, socialist/Marxist public school system, I remember reading one of those weekly “scare the heck out of children” pamphlets we received in class during my elementary years, quotes from the greatest socialist/atheist scientific minds on global warming, that by 2010, we would be in a apocalypse survival mode, due to cataclysmic events worldwide. Well, no need to say anything further other than our world is a living planet as well as our solar system. Semper Fi