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2004-2005 hurricane seasons 'odd

2004-2005 hurricane seasons 'odd but explainable' (PhysOrg)
Were the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons all that odd? Can they be explained? Robert Weisberg, a University of South Florida College of Marine Science hurricane expert, and his colleague, Jyotika Virmani, concluded that when a record number of hurricanes lashed the Gulf coasts in 2004-2005 we were reaping what elevated surface sea temperatures (SSTs) sewed. It`s happened before, said co- Weisberg

New RMS View of U.S. Hurricane Activity Rates Increases Losses by 40% in Florida and Gulf Coast (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Risk Management Solutions today announced that increases to hurricane landfall frequencies in the company's U.S. hurricane model will increase modeled annualized insurance losses by 40% on average across the Gulf Coast, Florida and the Southeast, and by 25-30% in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal regions, relative to those derived using long-term 1900-2005 historical average hurricane