User blog comment:Ryan1000/Ryan1000's official predictions for worldwide activity of 2012/@comment-2239664-20121111231318

Well everyone, it seems the year of 2012 is writing it's last chapter of named storms for the Northern Hemisphere. Round two in the Southern Hemisphere could bring about some more storms but everything seems to be closing up. It seems my predictions weren't too good in ATL; I never expected to have as many storms as we did. For the third consecutive year, 19 storms became named in the Atlantic this year. Such a phenomena has never been recorded in Atlantic basin history. I only foresaw 11 to 17 named storms, something similar to 2004 or 2008, but nothing like our last two seasons. We had a total of ten hurricanes, more than the 6 to 9 that I predicted, but only one lone major hurricane(michael, which barely made the upgrade for 6 hours), less than the 2 to 5 that I predicted. ACE totals for the Atlantic are, according to NHC as of October 31st, 130% of the 1981-2010 mean. That's pretty much right in between what I predicted to be 120-140% of the mean. Assuming we get no explosive November, that's pretty accurate. Every one of my predictions was quite accurate in EPac; the number of storms, hurricanes, and majors I predicted ended up right where it was supposed to, as did the ACE totals. WPac did too. The NIO was dead once again this year, and had it not been for the two brief tropical storms that formed there in October, the 2012 NIO season could have easily been the first tropical cyclone season in history to not have any named storms in the entire season. The SHem was ok in activity too. Overall, I'd say my predictions were pretty damn good. Sure, the Atlantic had a few more storms than I predicted, but due to the lack of many major hurricanes, ACE was pretty close to what I anticipated. I'll make another post for my worldwide predictions of 2013 sometime soon. Until then, Farewell.