The results show high hurricane activity also occurred at around 1000 AD, where levels approached that seen today. (blogs.nature.com)
A team from Louisiana State University studied thousands of years worth of lake bed evidence and discovered that, over the past 3,400 years, a dozen Category 4 or higher hurricanes hit the area — yet most of them occurred 1,000 years or more ago [source: Young]. (science.howstuffworks.com)
One study found that warming didn't seem to play a role in the increased winter storm activity over the U.S., but, in another study by the same researchers, they did find that it did up the odds of the unusually high hurricane activity around Hawaii. (climatecentral.org)