Re: Angry God Punishes Red States with Tornadoes, Their Hillbilly Governor Attends Republican Fundraiser In Alabama

On 1/11/2025 7:07 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/11/2025 5:31 PM, cyclintom wrote:

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Will you stop it? Above 35 degrees north latitude you can hardly call it a hurricane and not just heavy rain.

 You need to explain that to the people around Asheville NC.
 

After Hurricane Gloria hit in 1985 the neighborhood I was living in at the time had no power for almost two weeks.
But to the point of latitude somehow being a magical delineator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes#Deadliest_storms
They only list back to 1932, but Since 1932 at least 103 deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_England_hurricanes#Deadliest_storms
Going from the same 1932 point, New England has seen at least 839 deaths. Removing the outlier from the unnamed hurricane of 1938, there are 157 confirmed deaths.
The most northern point of California is Cape Mendocino at 40°44', where as the southernmost point in New England Great Captain Island, Connecticut at 40°59′.
IOW, the entirety of New England is north of the northern most point in California, yet across the same time period New England had more than 8 times as many deaths from storms that were classified as hurricanes.