Table 8

1944 to 1991 1899 to 1991
Mean SD CV Mean SD CV
Gulf Coast 0.29 0.46 1.59 0.35 0.56 1.60
East Coast 0.40 0.73 1.82 0.34 0.63 1.85
   Florida Pen. 0.19 0.44 2.32 0.19 0.42 2.21
   Upper Atlantic 0.21 0.58 2.76 0.15 0.46 3.07
Entire US 0.69 0.78 1.13 0.70 0.80 1.14

Table 8 Summary of U.S. landfalling IH activity expressed as annual means, standard deviations (SD), and coefficients of variation (CV) for both recent years and for the entire data set.