8 Straight Hurricanes Have Formed in the Atlantic, a First Since the Late 1800s (weather.com)

1) we don't know if this was a first because for the latter half of that period, we generally didn't know of the existence of a given hurricane unless it approached landfall. That ability only came with weather satellites.

2) note: this site tries to get the browser's location. Always use weather.gov (the U.S. Weather Service site), not weather.com, for forecasts.

I'm sure we had Satellite data in the Late 1800's, right?...

So pre-global warming we where having at least 4 a century, now we are down to one or less (with the new ability of satellite data to catch them all, you'd conclude we are even better off)

1893: 10, 1886: 10, 1878: 10, 1880: 9