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jonathan wrote:
Last year saw an unprecedented number of land-falling
hurricanes. No one could imagine a season worse, as
last year saw about as many hurricanes as you can fit
into one season. But all that energy has to go somewhere
so the hurricanes are simply getting BIGGER in size...

Do remember that, aside from suspected long-term cycles, there is a *lot*
of random variation in number and size of hurricanes. That means there
will sometimes be years that have a most unusual number of them; sometimes
you'll even get two or more such years in a row. This doesn't necessarily
imply deep and sinister causes -- pure random chance will do that now and
then. A smooth, uniform distribution of hurricanes over time would be
very suspicious; clustering is to be *expected* if they are truly random.

There were two "once in a hundred years" storms in the North Sea in the
1980s... within three months of each other in 1987.
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