Meet the 108-year-old Nice Hurricane of 1916, which introduced eight toes of floodwater to Asheville, North Carolina and lined all of Biltmore – do you agree?
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
With all the climate alarmist hype surrounding Hurricane Helene (and more to come with Milton), it seems appropriate to introduce everyone to Major Hurricane Number 4 of 1916, which preceded Hurricane Helene's 2024 visit to Asheville, with the below shown and discussed in the headlines WUWT article here.
NOAA results data for the 1916 Atlantic hurricane season are listed below and can be found here.
The cause of the 1916 Asheville hurricane is No. 4 on the list, at a time when hurricanes were not yet named and there were no satellites, hurricane hunter aircraft or long-range weather radar systems to identify and track storms.
There were 15 numbered Atlantic storms in 1916, although there could well have been many more that were never observed that season due to observational inadequacies compared to the technology available today.
The map below is expanded to better show the origin and path of Major Hurricane Number 4, which begins approximately in the middle of the map, with a square labeled Number 4 denoting this event.
Major Hurricane #4 moves toward the coast of South Carolina, eventually reaching North Carolina and Tennessee, while moving quickly during July 11-15, ending as a tropical storm and depression in the Asheville area.
Colorado State University's comprehensive Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity data identifies the following relevant information on the 1916 Atlantic hurricane year metrics using the extensive database information of its basin archives.
There were ten hurricanes in the 1916 Atlantic season, as shown below, compared to nine hurricanes so far in this year's 2024 season.
There were five major hurricanes in the 1916 Atlantic season, as shown below, compared to four major hurricanes (including Milton) so far in this year's 2024 season.
The 1916 Atlantic season had a total ACE component of 144, as shown below, compared to the 2024 season's total ACE component of 115.6 (as of October 7, 2024).
The 30-year ACE average for the Atlantic season (1991-2020) is 122.5, making 1916 an above-average ACE hurricane year.
In 1916, three major hurricanes passed over the contiguous land region of the United States, with two additional hurricanes also making landfall, for a total of five inland hurricanes.
In 1916, Hurricane Number 14 was the deepest landfall in the United States, originating in the Gulf of Mexico and extending through the states of Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, ending in Illinois, as shown on the map.
Apparently the “hurricanes” of 1916 did not know that future “climate change” was necessary for hurricanes to travel so high into the United States
If there had been politically motivated climate alarmists some 108 years ago, it is certain that the 1916 results would also have been seen as a clear “sign” that hurricanes are getting worse due to “climate change.”.
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