pattern? And while far from complete, aircraft observations extend back to about 1944. Before then, however, there are only records of those storms that made landfall or, occasionally, reports from ships unlucky enough to have encountered one. Going back even further means relying on historical reports and various proxies (paleotempestology is the wonderful name for that field of study). So to understand trends over more than seventy years (before the onset of significant human influences), we have to correct for imprecise and incomplete observations, unfortunately all too common across
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