Of The Top 10 Deadliest Hurricanes in U.S. History, Most Occurred Over A Century Ago

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Of The Top 10 Deadliest Hurricanes in U.S. History, Most Occurred Over A Century Ago
by Gina Martinez  Oct 7, 2024 in Extreme Weather, News, Science Reading Time: 5 mins read
 

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is well underway, with forecasters predicting active and potentially dangerous conditions. … [emphasis, links added]

In late September, Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast and drenched the Southeast, with devastating flooding taking a deadly toll in the mountains of North Carolina.


Here are the top 10 deadliest recorded hurricanes in U.S. history, according to the National Weather Service.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/of-the-top-10-deadliest-hurricanes-in-u-s-history-most-occurred-over-a-century-ago/

[Timber Rattler]

Yes indeed!  All this hyperbole about climate change and super storms (starting with Katrina in 2005) is abject nonsense, considering the natural history of the country.  What has changed is that the coastal areas are more heavily populated and dumb people are building their beach homes right up to the waters' edge, and even out on the outer banks. 

For example:

https://www.zillow.com/outer-banks-nc/

Those homes will get wrecked by some hurricane one day in the future, sure as the sun rises in the East.

[Gefn]

@Timber Rattler

It's the same as some of the homes in Malibu. Lovely, homes, the kind where you want to look at in magazines and dream you live  in one- or can even just visit for a few hours

You know that one day an earthquake will totally destroy them.

I guess it is like the old TV commercial - you can't  fool Mother Nature  (paraphrase)

[mountaineer]

I've noticed in recent weeks that the record highs and lows for my area, as mentioned by the local TV meteorologist, all seem to have come at least 70 years ago - pre-SUV.
 Plus ça change, and all that. There's nothing new under the sun.

[Smokin Joe]

I've noticed in recent weeks that the record highs and lows for my area, as mentioned by the local TV meteorologist, all seem to have come at least 70 years ago - pre-SUV.
 Plus ça change, and all that. There's nothing new under the sun.

Record lows here and in a town I worked in in Wyoming have been changed. In the early '80s here it hit (officially) -54 (not wind chill, that's air temperature) and the Weather service announced it. Where I was working, a lady in that small town with a 'spirit' (alcohol) thermometer read -60 F. In Wyoming, almost a decade later in Riverton, the temperature got down to an official weather service temp of -54 F.
The reason 54 below zero is worthy of note is that is the temperature where mercury solidifies (freezes) .

I went back through the temperatures to check the exact dates, and found that in both instances, the temperature had been 'adjusted' to the mid -40s.

The data has been corrupted by those seeking warmer average temperatures (the high+the low)/2. There comes a point where the highs cannot be 'adjusted' upward, but to bring up the average, the lows can. The roughly 7 degree adjustments would give an average increase of 3.5 degrees F, or just under two degrees C,  which is exactly what they want.

This isn't science, it's PA counting votes in 2020.