TallyTracker wrote:TheDreamTraveler wrote:Category5Kaiju wrote:I'm honestly flabbergasted by how many Cat 4+ storms in the Gulf have made landfall in the CONUS since 2017. Ever since then, with the exception of 2019, every year has had one of these kinds of storms, and Ian looks to continue this deadly pattern. Unlike years before then, Cat 4+ GoM storms aren't weakening before landfall, they're literally strengthening up until then. Not sure what is causing this pattern, whether it is a property of the gulf itself that has changed or if something in the Atlantic atmospheric state is causing it, but I can bet you that unless something drastic happens, it's likely that 2023, 2024, and so forth will feature at least one of these kinds of systems in their respective seasons.
It's only a matter of time before those maps depicting Harvey, Michael, Laura, Ida, and (now) Ian are going to become totally unreadable.
We went from having 0 category 3+ major hurricane landfalls in the US from 2006-2016 to so many I've lost count at this point between 2017-2022
Historically, there seems to be years with many major hurricane strikes and then years of quiet. It’s seems we are back in the busy stretch as far as landfalls are concerned. Not sure if it’s random or if a specific cyclical weather pattern is to blame. My guess is a combination of both but that’s exactly what it is, a guess.
I'm sure somebody has studied the correlation of Hurricane frequency and strength with sun spot activity and it's 22 year cycle I think.
