HAVE YOU THANKED A CLIMATE-CHANGER TODAY?:

Want to know a secret? First, knock on wood, and whatever you do, don't tell the hurricanes, ok? This news might inspire them to pick up the pace, and we wouldn't want that.

Now that we've covered all the superstitious bases, here's the good news: a major hurricane hasn't hit the United States for the past nine years! [...]

The researchers wanted to know just how strange this drought was. To get a better sense of whether or not the severe storms' lack of landfall was an outlier or not, they looked at historical records and ran computer simulations of hurricane seasons from 1950 to 2002. They ran the simulations 1,000 times and estimated that a 9-year stretch like this is likely to occur only once in about 177 years.

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