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Subject: E22) What tracks did the continental U.S. major hurricanes take
by decade?
Contributed by Chris Landsea (NHC)
The following figures from Blake et al. (2005) show the decade by
decade tracks of hurricanes that made landfall on the continental U.S.
as major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale).
Note that before 1900 portions of the Gulf coast from Texas to Florida
were relatively uninhabited and that small but intense hurricanes
(like Andrew in 1992 or Charley in 2004) may not have been correctly
identified as being major hurricanes. Thus the counts of U.S. major
hurricanes is likely incomplete (low) for the period of 1851 to 1900.
Last Updated : May 23, 2013
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