Something to think about...

[hurricanetrack]

New York- I guess that's the state as a whole- has had 5 major hurricanes make a direct hit where as Northeast Florida has had NONE from 1900-1996. That's interesting for folks paying higher insurance in Jacksonville than on Long Island. Hmm....

[abajan]

Didn't you know that insurance companies are the kings of rip-off?

[wxman57]

New York- I guess that's the state as a whole- has had 5 major hurricanes make a direct hit where as Northeast Florida has had NONE from 1900-1996. That's interesting for folks paying higher insurance in Jacksonville than on Long Island. Hmm....

Which 5 major hurricanes hit New York? The only one that might have been Cat 3 or higher that I remember from my research of landfalling major storms is the 1938 hurricane, and the Unisys site lists that one as extratropical at landfall. I just checked back from 1851-2003 and confirmed that. Are you talking about before 1851?

Oh, and Dora hit NE Florida in 1964 as a Cat 3:
<img src="http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1964/DORA/track.gif">


Extratropical 1938 storm (according to Unisys):
<img src="http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1938/4/track.gif">

1869: Cat 3 passed just east of Long Island and hit Rhode Island/Massachusetts
<img src="http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1869/6/track.gif">

[BayouVenteux]

New York- I guess that's the state as a whole- has had 5 major hurricanes make a direct hit where as Northeast Florida has had NONE from 1900-1996. That's interesting for folks paying higher insurance in Jacksonville than on Long Island. Hmm....

And most of the insurance business is headquartered in? ....hmmmmm. Wonder how many of those VPs and CEOs have weekend places in the Hamptons.

[hurricanetrack]

Here is where I saw those stats re: New York and NE Florida:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/paststate.html

Maybe they got it wrong, but I'll check in to it.