<!doctype html><html><head><link rel="icon" href=""><meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"><title>Hurricane expert Klotzbach: #Irma at landfall comes in 7th behind 1935 Labor Day storm</title><link href="https://drudgenow.com/static/w.css?l" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" ><base href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/10/hurricane-expert-klotzbach-irma-at-landfall-comes-in-7th-behind-1935-labor-day-storm/"/><meta property="og:url" content="http://drudgenow.com/article/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwattsupwiththat.com%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fhurricane-expert-klotzbach-irma-at-landfall-comes-in-7th-behind-1935-labor-day-storm%2F"><meta property="fb:app_id" content="1659570504353007"><meta property="al:android:url" content="http://drudgenow.com/article/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwattsupwiththat.com%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fhurricane-expert-klotzbach-irma-at-landfall-comes-in-7th-behind-1935-labor-day-storm%2F"><meta property="al:android:package" content="com.iavian.dreport"><meta property="al:android:app_name" content="Drudge Report"><meta property="og:title" content="Hurricane expert Klotzbach: #Irma at landfall comes in 7th behind 1935 Labor Day storm"> <meta name="twitter:card" content="app"> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@drudgereportapp"><meta name="twitter:description" content="Drudge Report App for your Smartphone"> <meta name="al:web:should_fallback" content="false"> <meta name="twitter:app:name:iphone" content="Drudge Report"><meta name="twitter:app:id:iphone" content="1162108244"><meta name="twitter:app:name:googleplay" content="Drudge Report"><meta name="twitter:app:id:googleplay" content="com.iavian.dreport"> </head><body class="m"><header onclick="javascript:location.href='https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/10/hurricane-expert-klotzbach-irma-at-landfall-comes-in-7th-behind-1935-labor-day-storm/'"><div class="t">Hurricane expert Klotzbach: #Irma at landfall comes in 7th behind 1935 Labor Day storm</div><div class="u"><span class="favicon"><img src="https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=wattsupwiththat.com">wattsupwiththat.com</span></div></header><div id='c'><p>While this won’t be of much comfort for those that are squarely in it’s path right now, it is a small bit of good news. <a href="http://tropical.colostate.edu/personnel/">Dr. Philip Klotzbach</a> has compiled rankings of both hurricane Irma and Harvey when they made landfall. Compared to the 1935 Labor Day storm, Irma is a distant 7th, tied with the 1928 Lake Okeechobee storm.</p>
<p>He <a href="https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/906881395057844225">writes</a>:</p>
<p>Table of all hurricanes with landfall pressures &lt;= 940 mb at time of U.S. landfall. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Irma?src=hash">#<b>Irma</b></a> was 929 mb and <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#<b>Harvey</b></a> was 938 mb.</p>
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<p>With Irma ranked 7th, and Harvey ranked 18th, it’s going to be tough for climate alarmists to try connecting these two storms to being driven by CO2/global warming. But they’ll do it anyway.</p>

		
			
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