First time in recorded history two hurricanes Category 4 or higher hit the U.S. in a single season.

[Cattledog]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-strength-hurricane-points-toward-florida/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sa-editorial-social&utm_content=link-post&utm_term=sustainability_&sf112304562=1

Hurricane Irma has a high-profile target in its potentially deadly path as it races toward the Florida coastline: President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

Irma is the second-strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, and the National Hurricane Center is warning that its projected track toward a U.S. landfall on Sunday is “potentially catastrophic.” As of 5 a.m. today, the storm was bearing down on the Leeward Islands and is expected to engulf the northern Virgin Islands later today. It could skim Puerto Rico this afternoon or tonight, passing just north of the island.

Trump’s resort, which he’s called the “Winter White House,” sits on a narrow barrier island in Palm Beach, Fla., about 75 miles north of Miami. Uncertain projections suggest the storm could land somewhere in South Florida before turning north and strafing the length of the state. It’s unclear if its eyewall will travel along the east or west side of the state, or barrel right up the middle.

Irma is a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 185 mph. Only Hurricane Allen, which slammed into parts of Mexico and Texas in 1980, was clocked with stronger winds, at 190 mph. If the storm makes landfall, coming two weeks after Hurricane Harvey inundated parts of Texas, it would be the first time in recorded history that two hurricanes classified as Category 4 or higher hit the U.S. in a single season, according to Weather Underground.

[MineralMan]

1. See, it's this way: Mother Nature Voted for Hillary

Now she's pissed off and getting even.

[Hortensis]

4. Mother Nature is weighing in against all the anti-government rhetoric.

She's such a bitch I'm not just disinclined to thank her, though, but afraid to.

[MineralMan]

6. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

Or is that "fool around with?"

[Hortensis]

9. It's attracting any kind of attention that scares me!

Irma is animating my animism.

[irisblue]

2. Wilma & Rita & Katrina in 2005?

weren't those 3 hurricanes Cat 5? off to check.....

[D_Master81]

7. cat 3?

I believe a couple of those dropped to cat 3s as they came ashore.

[spiderpig]

3. Speaking of which, how are Jose and Katya doing?

Poor people in the paths of these storms...

[ileus]

5. Reminds me of 43 and hurricane making machine.

Looks like 45 pulled it out of mothballs...

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Nothing To See Here!

Nope, nothing at all. Freak coincidences happen all the time. That's why they're called freak coincidences.

Oh wait, that doesn't make sense.

[louis-t]

10. They're talking about Category 6.

Let that sink in....