1) we don't know if this was a first because for the latter half of that period, we generally didn't know of the existence of a given hurricane unless it approached landfall. That ability only came with weather satellites.
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So pre-global warming we where having at least 4 a century, now we are down to one or less (with the new ability of satellite data to catch them all, you'd conclude we are even better off)
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