Jon Erdman wrote a piece in WunderBlog about Florida’s decade-long hurricane drought. It’s been over ten years since a hurricane made landfall anywhere in the state. You can read it here.
With this year likely to bring a La Niña to the tropics, the chances of a hurricane in the Atlantic go up. But we still can’t tell where storms are likely to go or exactly where they will form, so even in a La Niña year they could be bypassed by any storms that occur. And even in years with low counts, any one storm has the potential to cause enormous damage (for example, Hurricane Andrew in 1992).
