Why Should I Care?

This time of year gets particularly busy for me with the start of the North Atlantic hurricane season (as you can probably tell by the lack of recent posts).  However, that delay is your good fortune as all the latest predictions for this year’s hurricane season have come in, and if the majority our correct [...]

By Angela Fritz When you want to determine how intense or how strong a hurricane season was, there are many ways you can calculate it.  An obvious place to start would be summing the intensity of the individual tropical cyclones in that season.  When a cyclone is defined as a tropical storm or a hurricane [...]

As I undertake final preparation on a presentation related to seasonal forecasting for next week’s American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, it seemed like a good time to look back at last year’s seasonal forecast for the North Atlantic Hurricane Season.  In previous posts (1st, second), we looked at what various forecasting groups were saying the [...]