I'm the Common Denominator

I realize, of course, that it is totally absurd to think that I have any effect on the weather...but holey moley...it sometimes seems that way to me.  

Here is why:

We moved to Florida in 1999 and according to locals it had been "years and years" since they had anything resembling a hurricane or tropical storm.

Then:

1999

 -September we had a mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Floyd 

-  Tropical Storm Harvey a couple weeks later

- Tropical Storm Irene in October

2000 was calm

2001 - Tropical Storm/Hurricane Gabrielle hit on September 13

2002 - Tropical Storm Edouard 

2003 - Tropical Storm Henri

2004 was a wonderful *sarcasm* year for hurricanes.  

- Charlie was in August...a category 4 that weakened to a 1 by the time it reached us.

-Frances was beginning of September...a category 4 hurricane and we took a direct hit.

-Jeanne was end of September...a category 1 hurricane

If you're keeping track that is 

-5 named hurricanes 

-4 Tropical storms

in 6 years.  

Then I moved to Wisconsin for 10 years (2005-2015) and over that period of time Florida experienced 2 tropical storms!  One in 2007 and one in 2013.  

We have been back in Florida for only 3 months and, what do you know, we are expecting a hurricane/tropical storm on Monday!  

The latest predictions show Tropical Storm Erika making landfall Monday morning on Florida's southwestern coast, near Naples.

The storm is forecasted to then move north-northeast up the center of the state, toward Central Florida.

Did you get that? Right towards Central Florida!

And just a side note:

while we were in Wisconsin we experienced 

- the 2nd coldest winter on record* in 2013-2014

- the 4th snowiest winter on record* in 2008

*records date back to 1886