Hurricane Irma Comes 7th In List Of Landfalling U.S. Hurricanes

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HURRICANE IRMA COMES 7TH IN LIST OF LANDFALLING U.S. HURRICANES

  • Date: 10/09/17
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While this won’t be of much comfort for those that are squarely in it’s path right now, it is a small bit of good news. Dr. Philip Klotzbach has compiled rankings of both hurricane Irma and Harvey when they made landfall. Compared to the 1935 Labor Day storm, Irma is a distant 7th, tied with the 1928 Lake Okeechobee storm.

He writes:

Table of all hurricanes with landfall pressures <= 940 mb at time of U.S. landfall. #Irma was 929 mb and #Harvey was 938 mb.

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