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I lost my side porch with Sandy's 90 mph winds, in PA no less!

Hope I'm wrong. But climate change is a fickle thing, and I think the variables are in place, unfortunately.

Here's to be being wrong!

and believe it or not, it looks like we won't feel much effect from it - and I need the rain!

Looks like we won't get any rain.

I could be wrong, but I thought they usually swing up toward the Gulf early on and the East Coast later in the season when the waters are warmer.

no matter how I google it, Arthur is all that comes up.

Able was a May hurricane in '51 that came within 70 miles of Cape Hatteras before heading out to sea.
Cindy in '59 was the earliest previous landfall at 9 Jul
Bertha in '96 was the next earliest at 12 Jul

Wikipedia has hurricane season reports at least as far back as 1950 (the earliest I looked at) and show the tracks and reports of the various storms for each season. Here is the report for 2014 (just change the year in the line to go to whatever year you choose).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Atlantic_hurricane_season

with tracking Arthur.

It keeps weaving here and there like a drunk.

Hurricane Arthur is strengthening over the Atlantic, with forecasters predicting it will become a strong Category 2 as it threatens to deliver North Carolina a glancing blow on Independence Day.

The hurricane's maximum sustained winds late Thursday morning were 90 mph as the storm's outer bands started to reach southern parts of North Carolina. Category 2 hurricanes pack winds of more than 96 mph.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Arthur is centered about 260 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and about 110 miles south-southwest of Cape Fear. It's moving north at 14 mph.

Predicted heavy rains and winds prompted thousands of vacationers and residents to leave parts of the state's popular flood-prone Outer Banks.

Hatteras island was under a mandatory evacuation order for visitors and residents, with officials asking an estimated 35,000 people to leave through North Carolina Route 12, the only road on and off the island.

more...

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2014/07/03/arthur-takes-aim-at-carolinas/

Hurricane Arthur has shifted to the left inside its cone of track uncertainty, and is poised to deliver a direct hit to the barrier islands of eastern North Carolina on Thursday night and Friday morning. The hurricane's 90 mph winds and 979 mb pressure from the 5 pm EDT

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.