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Can we include typhoons in the Pacific or is this just limited to Eastern & Southern US Coast.
So your point is we have been very lucky LOL
A storm doesn't have to be a hurricane to cause severe damage, Sandy ($54B) was about the same as Katrina. Irene and other storms that dropped several inches of rain in short period but yes there has been a drought.
a couple of points.... I posted a link.. it includes the twins.. .and all cyclonic activity on the planet for the last 40 odd years.
Sandy was very expensive because of where it hit, not because of how strong it was.
So what conclusions do you draw based on cyclone activity and hurricane activity for the last 20 years, did you determine there is no global warming?
Any hurricane that hits the east coast will be expensive, even non-hurricanes like Sandy. Just because it doesn't meet the hurricane standard doesn't mean we are not impacted by other kinds of severe weather.
The hurricane drought continues, contrary to the predictions of the AGW alarmism extremists.
LOL.
Please note that Tropical Storm Sandy did not break the drought when it hit the East coast back in 2012, for the obvious reason that it was not a hurricane. That is of course the reason that the mass-media invented the "Superstorm" appellation, because if they had just referred to it as the Tropical Storm that it was, that would not have been nearly as sensational, which would have negatively affected their ratings.
Sandy hit the coast with winds of 80 mph as a cat 1 hurricane with the largest wind diameter ever recorded , 1,100 miles...It caused 68 billion in damage, and killed 233 people.....Hardly a minor tropical storm.
Just so everyone knows (and I know you already know this), hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are different names for the same weather event.
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, "normal" hurricane activity annually is roughly 40 plus or minus a few. I tabulated numbers for several years but grew bored at the work so I stopped.
You are absolutely correct that fewer in one region will generally mean more in another region or regions.
Sandy hit the coast with winds of 80 mph as a cat 1 hurricane with the largest wind diameter ever recorded , 1,100 miles...It caused 68 billion in damage, and killed 233 people.....Hardly a minor tropical storm.
Sandy did not hit the coast as a hurricane. That is not true, as I suspect you know very well.
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