2022 Tropical Season thread MERGE

TheRealJRad said
“predicting above-average hurricane activity this year — which would make it the seventh consecutive above-average hurricane season”

What’s a “normal” season, and when does that baseline change?

I found this on Wikipedia, I don’t know if it’s where these “normal” numbers come from though.

”On average, 10.1 named storms occur each season, with an average of 5.9 becoming hurricanes and 2.5 becoming major hurricanes (Category 3 or greater).”

Keep in mind all it takes is one to make it a bad year for some areas . Hurricane Andrew is a great example. It
was the first named storm of the 92 season and didn't form until August 16th. 1969 also had below average activity. It
still produced Camille . I'll take memories of Camille to my grave. I was watching cartoons and my mom says we
have to leave now. I asked her why. She said bad weather will becoming here soon. We walked across the street to
the local elementary school. My 7 year old mind still didn't understand. Later that evening the venetian blinds started
floating toward the ceiling and then slammed back down. The roof was torn off down the hall and you could hear screams. Those people evacuated to other rooms including ours. It's an experience I never want to live through again.