Ten years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. It was one of four major storms to make landfall in the US that year, and 2005 remains among the worst Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, causing as many as 4,000 deaths across the Atlantic Basin and more than $100 billion in damages. Since then it's been relatively quiet on the eastern front—the longest US hurricane drought on record, according to climate scientists.
Americans haven't been smacked with anything worse than a Category 2 since October 2005. The lack of megastorms in the past decade is just luck, researchers say, and this season is expected to be calmer than average too. At least on that side of the world. Experts from University College London predict that the Northwest Pacific typhoon season will be the most active since 2004. While there's no sure way to foresee where hurricanes will pop up, we do know where they've been.
