Thread:Leeboy100/@comment-4074533-20170626175211

Hi, Leeboy. Here are some additional coincidences that I am aware of (some of which I realized as I was writing this comment). Since my server will not allow me to post comments on your blog, I am leaving them here over several messages. Please feel free to include them in your blog:

List II:
 * As with both other even-numbered Atlantic lists, all the years in which List II was used coincided with some sort of federal election in the United States. All List II years coincided with House of Representative and one Senate class elections. Additionally, 1980, 1992, 2004, and 2016 were presidential election years. Interestingly, it should be noted that in all four of the aforementioned years, a Republican was elected President of the United States (Reagan, H.W. Bush, W. Bush, and Trump, respectively).
 * Moreover, not only were 1980, 1992, and 2004 presidential election years, but also featured at least one major hurricane striking the United States (Allen, Andrew, and Charley/Ivan/Jeanne, respectively).
 * In addition to the coincidence you mentioned, the M storm in both 1998 and 2016 was the strongest and deadliest of their corresponding Atlantic hurricane season.
 * And in both seasons, the strongest storm before the M storm was the G storm (Georges and Gaston, respectively)!
 * On a similar note, the M storms of 1998 and 2010 (Mitch and Matthew, respectively) both caused profound impacts in Central America.
 * Both 2004 and 2010 witnessed three consecutive hurricanes starting with the same three letters: (Ivan, Jeanne, and Karl vs. Igor, Julia, and Karl).
 * Both 1998 and 2010 had three or more hurricanes active at one point (Igor/Julia/Karl vs. Georges/Ivan/Jeanne/Karl).
 * And as I typed that, I noticed that in both seasons, the I-K storms were (part of) the three (or more) active hurricanes! That is so interesting!
 * Both 1986 and 1992 observed four hurricanes (Bonnie, Charley, Earl, and Frances vs. Andrew, Bonnie, Charley, and Frances)
 * Would you look at that? Three of the hurricane names were the same between both years!
 * Both 2004 and 2010 tied a monthly tropical storm formation record, which happened to be the same number (eight - in August 2004 and September 2010).
 * In 2004 and 2010, the I storm (Ivan and Igor, respectively) was the strongest and generated the most ACE of all the season's storms.
 * Prior to 2005, the three costliest Atlantic hurricanes on record all had names from List II (Andrew '92, Charley '04, and Ivan '04).
 * Both 1992 and 2016 had a storm form well over a month before the start of the official hurricane season (Subtropical Storm One on April 20 and Hurricane Alex in mid-January, respectively).
 * Excluding Subtropical Storm One from 1992, 1980, 1986, and 1992 all had two named storms fail to reach hurricane intensity (Danielle and Hermine, Andrew and Danielle, and Danielle and Earl).
 * And when I was typing this, I realized that the two landfalling storms from 1980 and 1992 have the same two letters (Allen - MH and Danielle - TS vs. Andrew - MH (5) and Danielle - TS).
 * Three of the four storm letters that failed to become hurricanes in 1998 (Charley, Frances, and Hermine) also failed to do so in 2010 (Colin, Fiona, and Hermine).
 * Prior to 2016, the H storm (Hermine) never reached hurricane intensity, despite reaching 60 knots (70 mph) on a couple occasions.
 * Also, prior to 2016, the I and K names from this list always reached hurricane intensity.
 * Moreover, prior to 2016, the J names from this list always reached at least Category 2 intensity (Jeanne '80 - 2, Jeanne '98 - 2, Jeanne '04 - 3, and Julia '10 - 4).
 * Furthermore, the L name from this list (Lisa) always peaked at Category 1 intensity prior to 2016 (in 1998, 2004, and 2010).
 * Both 1998 and 2004 witnessed three named storms form from October onwards (Lisa, Mitch, and Nicole vs. Matthew, Nicole, and Otto).
 * The name Nicole has always gone to a meteorologically significant storm. The 1998 incarnation was the strongest December Atlantic tropical cyclone on record, followed by the first subtropical storm to receive a name from the regular naming lists in 2004, a unique monsoon-like tropical storm in 2010, and the first major hurricane threat in over a decade for Bermuda in 2016.
 * In both 1998 and 2004, four or more consecutive storms struck the United States, and three letters were the same between both years (Earl, Frances, Georges, and Hermine vs. Frances, Georges, Hermine, Ivan, and Jeanne). 