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Originally Posted by Jims5543
Major Hurricanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes
Notice the lack of modern storms in that list?
1 "Labor Day" 1935 892 mbar (hPa)
2 Camille 1969 909 mbar (hPa)
3 Katrina 2005 920 mbar (hPa)
4 Andrew 1992 922 mbar (hPa)
5 "Indianola" 1886 925 mbar (hPa)
6 "Florida Keys" 1919 927 mbar (hPa)
7 "Okeechobee" 1928 929 mbar (hPa)
8 Donna 1960 930 mbar (hPa)
9 Carla 1961 931 mbar (hPa)
10 Hugo 1989 934 mbar (hPa)
If you average the years up it come out to 1954. Was there global warming in 1954 because according to this chart that is the average for the killer huge destructive storms.
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This appears to be a list, not of ALL large storms, but of only those very few that made land fall AND caused significant damage. IT s hard to tell b/c of the lack of information about how the list was compiled. But if so, it conflates numerous factors.
The post I made before it, stated that "large storms are getting larger" NOT that the number of large storms was increasing - which is a quite different thing. The study was published in Nature IIRC, maybe in Science - last week. The interested can go look it up.