I recognize that it wouldn’t measure any real quantity, but just out of curiosity: does anyone have a record of the number of “category-hours” of hurricanes this year, and how that compares to other years? Everyone seems to agree this year has been dramatically more active; it would be interesting to see that we had X hours of category five hurricane, Y hours of category four, Z of category three, and so on, compared to past hurricane seasons.
I did not see exactly what you want right away, but this site is full of hurricane information:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
If, in my spare time today, I come across statistics, I’ll be back.