2014 Hurricane Season: Fewer Storms, But Rig Workers Need to be Wary

The odds are beginning to stack up against continued mild hurricane seasons, with few or no hurricanes moving across the Gulf and making landfall along the Gulf Coast, Johnson cautioned.

“What is unusual is that the last major hurricane to make landfall was in 2005 with hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Dennis and Wilma. Normal is every 500 days, but by the start of the 2014 hurricane season, we will have gone for 3,142 days without a major hurricane. We’re way overdue, statistically.”


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