FEMA mostly uses models based on historical storm data, which, of course, do not account for these predicted effects of climate change. (scientificamerican.com)
Knutson suspects that storm data from the 1800s, based on landfalls and ship logs describing storms at sea, appear to have undercounted the number of storms. (scientificamerican.com)
The Lesser Antilles intersect the «main development region» for Atlantic hurricane formation, making storm data there «our best source for historical variability of tropical cyclones in the tropical Atlantic in the past three centuries,» the researchers explain. (globalwarming.org)