" in the little ice age period, one Atlantic hurricane killed an estimated 20 to 22 thousand people"
Oh, my goodness. Why weren't they all watching the weather channel? What happened to the weather satellites?
"more "top ten" (most intense hurricanes to hit the US in its history"
How about the most intense hurricanes to not hit the US, or even most intense Atlantic hurricanes to not hit the US? They should prolly count for something...
There has been a substantial increase in most measures of Atlantic hurricane activity since the early 1980s, the period during which high-quality satellite data are available.,,,, These include measures of intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest (Category 4 and 5) storms. The ability to assess longer-term trends in hurricane activity is limited by the quality of available data. The historic record of Atlantic hurricanes dates back to the mid-1800s, and indicates other decades of high activity. However, there is considerable uncertainty in the record prior to the satellite era (early 1970s), and the further back in time one goes, the more uncertain the record becomes.
nca2014.globalchange.gov
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Earlier this month, Super Typhoon Haiyan stunned the meteorological community. The Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which tracked the storm, estimated its maximum one-minute sustained wind speeds at more than 195 miles per hour based on satellite imagery.
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