Monster hurricane Patricia is now tropical depression Patricia with sustained winds of 35 MPH.
In other news, as of today, it has been ten years since the continental USA has been hit by a hurricane of CAT 3 or greater.
From Anthony Watts:
Al Gore and the media were wrong: U.S. Major Hurricane Drought Now One Decade and Counting
As of today, October 24th, it has been 3652 days (including leap years) or a decade (10 years) since the US has been hit by a Category 3 or greater hurricane.
The last such hurricane was Wilma on October 24th, 2005. Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Each day forward will be a new record in this decade long hurricane drought period.
Needless to say, Anthony has all the data to back up his statements as well as a wonderful collection of hyperbolic "news releases" about how we are going to get storm after storm and it is all due to global warming.
Somebody forgot to tell this to the storms as they have been quite absent...
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