He’s calling for 20-12-5 / 180 this year
my forecast has somewhat similar numbers. 19-11-6 or something like that
speaking of last year, here is what Lezak predicted versus the mainstream, which is why I’m not really taking mainstream forecasters that seriously these days:
Actual Outcome (2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season)• Named storms: 18• Hurricanes: 11• Major hurricanes: 52024 FORECAST RESULTS – Graded Clinically
Source
Forecast (NS/H/MH)
Accuracy
Grade
Notes
TSR (Dec)
20/9/4
Overpredicted NS, nailed MH
B-
Started strong, but jumped the gun
Lezak (Mar)
14–19 / 7–10 / 4–5
EXCELLENT
A
Criminally underrated. Nearly perfect
CSU (Apr)
23/11/5
Overpredicted NS
B
Good hurricane count
MFM (Apr)
21/11/–
Missed NS by 3
B
Solid hurricane prediction, vague
TSR (Apr)
23/11/5
Overpredicted NS
B
Clean on H & MH
UA (Apr)
21/11/5
NS too high
B
Middle of the road
MU (Apr)
26/11/5
NS +8 = fail
D+
MH decent but otherwise bloated
NCSU (Apr)
15–20 / 10–12 / 3–4
Solid all-around
A-
Only slight MH undercall
UPenn (Apr)
27–39 / ?? / ??
LOL
F
Must’ve been high
SMN (May)
20–23 / 9–11 / 4–5
Slight over, still fair
B+
Rounded accuracy
UKMO (May)
22/12/4
Over NS
B-
Mid pack
NOAA (May)
17–25 / 8–13 / 4–7
Too wide but technically right
C+
Cowardly range
TSR (May)
24/12/6
NS +6
D
Wrong type of aggressive
CSU (Jun)
23/11/5
Same
B
Clean hit on H & MH
UA (Jun)
23/10/5
Also solid
B
But too high NS again
TSR (Jul)
26/13/6
Wild overprediction
D-
Absolutely NOT
CSU (Jul)
25/12/6
Big miss on NS
D+
MH okay
TSR (Aug)
24/12/6
Same as July
D
Doubling down on wrong
CSU (Aug)
23/12/6
At least H & MH matched
B-
But still too much juice
NOAA (Aug)
17–24 / 8–13 / 4–7
Safe again
C
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