3173 days since a major hurricane landfall in USA... #Arthur has a legitimate opportunity to break this streak over Outer Banks of NC. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
But then wasn't another major hurricane landfall in the United States for 12 years. (vox.com)
The team compared records of this atmospheric pattern with records of hurricane landfall during the last 150 years and found a suggestive statistical link, Elsner reported on 19 February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW. (sciencemag.org)