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29th August 2005 - Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane season, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
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A storm no one will forget for a long time.
At the time many scientists were saying that the hurricane season of 2005 that included Katrina was the beginning of what weather would be like along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts for the foreseeable future, yearly category 4/5 storms plus a handful of category 1 and 2 storms. There have been no similar outbreaks since then, even Florida hasn't been hit by a hurricane in the last 10 years, are we lucky or were the forecasting models wrong?