Figure 6: Annual number of intense hurricanes that have made
landfall along the U. S. East Coast from
the Florida peninsula to the Upper Atlantic (from
Georgia to New England) for the period of
reliable records of 1899-1996.
The long term (1900-90) average of 0.34 per year
(solid line)
as well as a five year running mean (light curve) are superimposed on
the time series.