2022 PREDICTIONS
Last year's hurricane season (2021) saw the number of named storms fall well short of the record number of 30 storms we had in 2020. The 21 named storms last year, however, were still the 3rd most ever in a season, and it marked the 2nd year in a row, 3rd time ever, that the seasonal storm name list was exhausted. That list has 21 names every year, using a name for every letter of the English alphabet except the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z. The 21 storms last year, following the 30 storm record season of 2020, easily broke the record for the number of named storms in a 2 year period. That record now stands at 51. The record for a 3 year period was also broken. That now stands at 69, falling 1 storm short of the previous record for number of storms in a 4 year period, which was shattered last year and now sits at 84. 84 storms in the last 4 years! The entire decade of the 1980's had 93 storms. Despite the extremely heavy activity in the tropics, particularly recently, prediction o...