2021 PREDICTIONS
As the start of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season draws ever closer, updated and finalized predictions of how the upcoming season will turn out are making their way to the forefront. These typically don't hold a lot of meaning, as no one ever dreamed of what happened last season, when a record 30 storms were named. But because of that record breaking season, it is a little interesting to see what the experts think the follow up to that will be. Going back and looking at mega active seasons out of the norm, we look at the 1995 and 2005 seasons. We see that the activity following both of those seasons were significantly down. In 1995, there were 19 named storms, 2 names short of exhausting the names list for what would have been the 1st time ever. This is when we learned that Greek letters would be used to name storms if the list was exhausted. The following season (1996) saw just 13 named storms, slightly above the normal range of expectancy, where the pre-season predictions were i...