US Hurricanes At Record Lows
By Paul Homewood
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/graphs-of-day-major-us-hurricane.html
Reposted from Roger Pielke Jr.
The US good luck with respect to hurricane landfalls — yes, good luck — continues. The graph below shows total US hurricane landfalls 1900 through 2013.
The five-year period ending 2013 has seen 2 hurricane landfalls. That is a record low since 1900. Two other five-year periods have seen 3 landfalls (years ending in 1984 and 1994). Prior to 1970 the fewest landfalls over a five-year period was 6. From 1940 to 1957, every 5-year period had more than 10 hurricane landfalls (1904-1920 was almost as active).
The red line in the graph above shows a decrease in the number of US landfalls of more than 25% since (which given variability, may just be an artifact and not reflecting a secular change). There is no evidence to support more or more intense US hurricanes. The data actually suggests much the opposite.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
“The data actually suggests…”. Surely he should have said ‘The data clearly shows..’
The CAGW acolytes do not shrink from using very definite sounding words when they have no evidence, but the sceptics use uncertain sounding words when they have definitive evidence.
The period 1944-1950 was extremely active in Florida with multiple major hurricane hits. Now almost nothing since 2005.