Bill Read's blog - on Wilma anniversary & current hurricane-drought
Posted by cypresstx on 10/26/2013, 10:30 am
http://www.click2houston.com/hot-button/blogs/blog-8-years-since-hurricane-wilma/-/2612622/22613580/-/mj2rae/-/index.html

This "drought" of major hurricane landfalls eclipses by two years the previous record that ran from the 1900 Galveston Storm to October 18, 1906, when a category 3 storm hit south Florida.

Looking at the data since 1900, there have been 78 category 3 or higher hurricanes make U.S. landfalls. If they occurred on average, two out of three years would see a major hurricane landfall.  This eight-year drought is "off the charts" statistically and surely will not last forever last.
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