User blog comment:Ryan1000/Ryan1000's official predictions for worldwide activity of 2013/@comment-4074533-20121207022147/@comment-2239664-20121210173521

I don't want to go so far as to thinking we'll run the table because I do think El Nino will return again in late 2013 or 2014, so IMO we will probrably get an above-normal season again, maybe as active as the past 3 seasons, but probrably not 2005. I never thought we would get to 19 storms for a third straight year in 2012 because I thought we would get El Nino in late 2012 around October, like I think for 2013, but El Nino unexpectedly retreated before it ever settled in. That's why forecasting is so difficult nowadays. I won't say anything about impacts worldwide because forecasting how destructive or deadly a season will be is absolutely impossible. We can't tell what the future season will hold for anywhere, or anyone, in the world. All we can hope for is that everyone is always prepared for whatever Mother Nature has to throw at them, even if, in the end, the season isn't that notable at all.