Weather.com published an article noting that the two Cat 4 hurricane strikes this year (Harvey and Irma) is a new record. Here’s a nice graphic they used showing both storms at landfall. But the statistics of rare events (like hurricanes) are not very well behaved. Let’s look at this new record, and compared it to … Continue reading The 11-Year Major Hurricane Drought: Much More Unusual than Two Cat 4 Strikes