Image: 1988- US Gulf Coast hurricane diameters

Description: Chart showing diameters of hurricanes reaching landfall in the Gulf Coast of the United States, as a function of time Data source: Dance, Scott; Ducroquet, Simon; Muyskens, John. (September 26, 2024). "See how Helene dwarfs other hurricanes that have hit the Gulf Coast". The Washington Post. Washington Post article explains: "A storm’s size is different from its strength, which is based on the maximum sustained wind speeds at its center. While intense storms like Helene, currently a Category 4 storm, often grow as they strengthen, many past storms that were far stronger than Helene were not nearly as large. ... When a storm is so large, it means more people are exposed to its hazards, which extend hundreds of miles away from the point of landfall." Technical note: most SVG code was automatically generated by the "Scatter plots" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Additions and adjustments were made in a text editor. Trendline matches that generated separately in Microsoft Excel. Aside: the symbols in this chart are based on the flag warming for hurricanes: Flag signals (File:Hurricane Warning Flags (U.S).svg)

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