That’s right, folks, it has been 9 years since Hurricane Wilma came ashore in south Florida on October 24th, 2005. Wilma was the last major (category 3+) hurricane to strike the continental United States.
This stands in stark contradiction to Warmist prognostication that the big season of 2005 would be the “new normal”. When they didn’t work out, they started saying that there would be less hurricanes, but they’d be more powerful. Now, of course, they’re claiming “climate change” is reducing hurricanes, both in number and intensity. Come November 22nd, the record for most days without a landfalling US hurricane will be broken at 3316 days, which has stood since the Civil War era. And there is almost no chance of a major hurricane occurring at this point.
Via Stephen Goddard, who notes that the running mean for Florida hurricanes (Wilma came ashore in Florida, of course) has been dropping. There were none this year. Not even a Tropical Storm. The US was only hit with one hurricane (Arthur) this year, a Category 1. Since 2008, there has been only one other true hurricane to make US landfall, Isaac. And land based recordings could create debate whether it was a hurricane at landfall (still dangerous as a TS, though). Sandy was not a hurricane at landfall.
If this is “climate change”, it’s good news. Of course, in reality, what we have going on is a normal Holocene warm period, and just part of the shorter term cycle of hurricane activity. But, we know Warmists like to blame everything on Hotcoldwetdry, because Shut Up You.
More: Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., discusses all this, and also has a piece in the USA Today on the subject.
Great because we are still cleaning up fro that “rainstorm” Sandy the one. That you said was overhyped
Sandy was a tremendously large hurricane that caused billions in damage maybe you forgot ? Or thought that because it thankfully weaken before landfall that made it insignificant ?
Interesting factoid there Teach
However
How about posting something without limiting it to the USA
Are you also implying that the total number of hurricanes is lower or just the number making landfall in the USA because the total number had been above average the number making landfall has been lower
Superstorm Sandy ( thought yo be over hyped by some). Killed almost. 300
But apparently is not significant
A quick wiki look would show that although the total number of hurricanes was average at 6 there was a definite knvrease in the number of powerful storms
Hurricanes get their power from hot sea temps
Sorry to spoil the party
John- Why do people like you continue to use dollar-damage loss as some sort of insight into the power of particular storms? There’s more people in the way and things cost more than they used to- obviously…to some.
The US, so important to us, is still about 2% of the Earth’s surface. The other 98% is still having hurricanes and typhoons with an increase in super-typhoons – monster storms with wind speeds over 158 mph. Our good luck doesn’t extend around the globe.
The Earth and its oceans continue to warm because of CO2 we’ve added to the atmosphere.
Jeff,
You are wrong.