Sentences with phrase «hurricane drought»

But talking about a major hurricane drought comes with some caveats, particularly as the U.S. coastal population grows and more people who have never experienced a hurricane in any form move to coastal areas.

By Senator Jeff Sessions It has been eight years since the last major hurricane struck the United States — a lull that experts call an «extended and intense hurricane drought,» the longest such drought since reliable records began in the 19th century.

Scientists at NASA / GISS have voted the article «The frequency and duration of U.S. hurricane droughts» by Timothy Hall & Kelly Hereid as the top work among over 170 research publications by institute staff published in 2015.

While the U.S. has been in a major hurricane drought since 2005, those top level storms have actually become more common in the Atlantic basin.

This major hurricane drought surpassed the length of the eight - years from 1861 - 1868 when no major hurricane struck the United States» coast.

The previous hurricane drought record was 8 years in the 1860s.

3) The United States is in the midst of a significant hurricane drought.

Harvey and Irma have ended an unprecedented 12 - year hurricane drought, in which not a single category 4 or 5 hurricane made American landfall.

As I wrote before, it is crazy to use Sandy as «proof» of a severe storm trend when in fact we are in the midst of a relative hurricane drought.

While this year's storms Hermine and Matthew brought an end to the state's decade - long hurricane drought, they easily could have been stronger or cut a more destructive path.

The past three years have seen a hurricane drought in the Atlantic.

Since then people have begun talking about the unusual «hurricane drought.»)