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RWNJs Claim No Major Hurricanes Since Katrina: Uh, Remember Sandy?

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Orange Impostor9/13/2017 5:14:45 pm PDT

These RWNJs are idiots who can’t even do the most cursory of research.

Just because the storms didn’t make landfall in the United States doesn’t mean that those hurricanes didn’t exist.

Since the record 2005 hurricane season, there have been nine major (category 3 or higher) that have made landfall in North America and caused significant damage ($1.0 billion or higher):

2007: Dean - Category 5
2008: Gustav - Category 4
2008: Ike - Category 4
2010: Karl - Category 3
2011: Irene - Category 3
2012: Sandy - Category 3
2016: Matthewl - Category 5
2017: Harvey - Category 4
2017: Irma - Category 5

Total number of major Atlantic hurricanes for this period was 33 - with every year except 2013 having at least two Cat 3 or higher storms.