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Re:Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home by SeoxyS on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:43PM (#15195531)
This raises an interesting point. Do you know how long we've been accurately recording cyclones?
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Re:Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home by spc476 on Friday September 08, 2017 @12:51AM (#15197918)
The National Hurricane Center has some records [1] going back to 1851 [2]. I'm sure those are based more off eye witness accounts.

[1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#tracks_all

[2] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tracks/tracks-at-1851.png

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Re:Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home by fish_fan on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:45PM (#15196045)
Depends on what you're trying to measure! Arguably we still can't measure many things accurately.
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