Someone plotted every single Atlantic hurricane landfall on record

Interesting that there are some significant gap areas that have not seen a hurricane, Specifically central area of La coast line.

Virginia in the cone of safety.

Vermillion Bay is kind of sacred

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Funny you say that, because I lived there when Isabel hit Hampton Roads in 2003. Entire area lost power for 15 days, place was a mess.

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I was up in Arlington. We painted a bullseye on our house it was under construction.

And I think technically that wasn’t landfall. But of course these trailing hurricanes can be devastating still.

Why do hurricanes not like the area from Creole to Dulac?
—high Crawfish prices

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Why do hurricanes not like the area from Creole to Dulac?

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Does anyone?


(I kid)

30a must be paying someone off.

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Surprised about the northeast coast of Florida and the Georgia coast, there are hardly any at those locations

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Something about how wind and currents shift them north generally.

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Something about how wind and currents shift them north generally

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It's mostly the big prevailing winds and the physics of the spinning earth.
In that zone most hurricanes are headed north as they begin their big right turn. That makes them strike coasts more when there is a E-W exposure. When the coast is mainly N-S the hurricanes run parallel to it rarely striking.

Looks fairly evenly distributed considering the map doesn’t go back millions of years.