coastal lake sediments along the gulf of mexico shoreline from 1,000 to 2,000 years ago suggest more frequent and intense hurricanes than occur today.
coastal lake sediments along the gulf of mexico shoreline from 1,000 to 2,000 years ago suggest more frequent and intense hurricanes than occur today.
paleotempestology:101
in the gulf of mexico, catastrophic hurricane strikes at given locations occur once about every 350 years in the last 3,800 years or about 0.48%-0.39% annual frequency at any given site, with a recurrence rate of 300 years or 0.33% annual probability at sites in the caribbean and gulf of mexico; category 3 or more storms occur at a rate of 3.9 - 0.1 category 3 or more storms per century in the northern gulf of mexico.