The April season predictions are out,

Colorado State University with Bill Gray and Philip J. Klotzbach have released their 2013 April predictions that has totals of 18/9/4.

Which means 18 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes, which is a highly active season. This year there is less to dispute that number than in the past 3 years or so and with over 7 years since a hurricane landfall in Florida, odds are higher than usual for something to occur. Still this is just the odds, and we may miss yet another year here in Florida.

The Weather Channel also issued its forecast for the season today : 16/9/5.

We at flhurricane agree that there is nothing concrete to dispute the numbers mentioned.

Analog years from Ed are 1996, 2001, 1981, 1984 and 1949. Colorado state suggested 1915, 1952, 1966, 1996, and most infamously (for Florida) 2004.

View Colorado State's full report at http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/2013/apr2013/apr2013.pdf

The Atlantic Hurricane Season begins June 1st and lasts through November 30th. The Peak is Mid August through the end of October.

The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1st, and 2012 went by as another year without (now 7 and counting) any landfalling hurricanes in Florida. Wilma in October 2005 was still the last hurricane to make landfall in Florida.

Odds were against Florida last year, and they are even moreso this year. I suspect this may be the year that the hurricane drought for Florida may end. But maybe the trend of no storms will continue.

This past year Isaac affected Louisiana and the northern Gulf coast, and Sandy (officially not a hurricane at landfall, but this site, in a rare move, maintains that it was) affected the northeast in a historic way.

This years storm names are: Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Ingrid, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Melissa, Nestor, Olga, Pablo, Rebekah, Sebastien, Tanya, Van, Wendy

We'll be around again this year, with our typical approach to tracking storms without the need for hype.