ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an objective approach to the temporal memory of major hurricanes through time, based on known storms derived from previous long-term historical tropical cyclone reconstructions. It presents the results of the scientific study of major hurricanes that provide the basis for studying the hurricane memory, its focus is on the memory and only highlights are provided here concerning the hurricane reconstruction. Although numerous pre-1870 hurricanes were more evident for Louisiana than for South Carolina and southern New England, it was discovered that finding major hurricane memory information for those events outside of New Orleans was difficult and results of public hurricane memory over time were likely to be incomplete. The chapter presents a comprehensive objective attempt to investigate the temporal memory of pre-1870 United States major hurricanes for southern New England, South Carolina and Louisiana. The documentary data on hurricane memory can be further analysed textually, going well beyond the presence/absence of hurricane memory.
