The authors assert that “During an El Niño year, the probability of two or more hurricanes making landfall in the United States is 28%.” Find the rate of the Poisson process.

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Occurrences of landfalling hurricanes during an El Niño event are modeled as
a Poisson process in Bove et al. (1998). The authors assert that “During an El
Niño year, the probability of two or more hurricanes making landfall in the
United States is 28%.” Find the rate of the Poisson process. 

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