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No Major Hurricane Has Hit United States in 11 Years
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a statement on October 24 observing that a major hurricane has not struck the United States in 11 years. According to Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC), “As of October 24, 2016, it will be a complete 11 years since a major hurricane has struck the United States, as defined by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale of being a Category 3 or higher. The current streak of no major hurricane landfalls onto the U.S. mainland remains intact. The last one to do so was Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005.”
Other hurricanes that landed in the United States during that time frame, Sandy in 2012 and Matthew this year, were of a lower wind intensity when they made landfall in the United States. Matthew had weakened to a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall near McClellanville, South Carolina, on October 8, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.
Many climate scientists have predicted that alleged human-caused global warming owing to an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere would produce an increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes. But CNSNews observed October 24 that “the unprecedented 11-year drought of major hurricanes striking the U.S. has occurred during the same time when CO2 levels were steadily rising, as measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which maintains ‘the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere,’ according to NOAA.”
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