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Predictions for year 2025 - mainly for entertainment purposes

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Totals for North Atlantic hurricane season: 22 (sub)tropical cyclones, 19 nameable storms, 6 hurricanes, 3 major (ACE=93) Totals for East Pacific hurricane season: 18(sub)tropical cyclones, 17 nameable storms, 10 hurricanes, 4 major (ACE=89) Totals for Central Pacific hurricane season: 4 tropical cyclones, 4 nameable storms, 2 hurricanes, 1 major Totals for Pacific typhoon season: 32 storms, 18 typhoons, 10 super typhoons (JTWC count) Totals for North Indian Ocean cyclone season: 6 storms, 4 hurricane-equivalent, 2 major hurricane-equivalent (JTWC count) One (sub)tropical storm in Mediterranean, one hurricane No (sub)tropical cyclones in Baltic Sea State of Niño 3.4: beginning as weak La Niña, becoming cool neutral in MAM, warm neutral in ASO Arctic sea ice minimum: 3.75 million km² Global annual average temperature: 1.20 degrees Celsius above 20th century average Circle coloration scheme Individual storm tracks in North Atlantic Tropical Storm ANDREA   Tropical Depression TWO ...

A code to calculate my performance

 # to be run with GNU Octave # data last added 2024/08/23, data ready for all forecasts issued on or before 2024/08/17 # to compare elioe's performance to U.S. agencies; # regarding "late advisories" posted after NHC/CPHC/JTWC advisories had become public (if they existed in that advisory cycle); # the code includes American forecast (nhcvect), elioe's forecast (myvect) and actual position and 1-min wind (btkvect) # ... whenever all three are available. # "basinvect" numbers: 1 for North Atlantic (agency=NHC), 2 for East Pacific (agency=NHC), 3 for WPac/NIO/SHem (agency=JTWC), 4 for CPac (agency=CPHC) # in CPac/EPac/NAtl, if not stated in comment otherwise, data source is operational track originally from https://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/atcf/btk/ # in case of revisions to data, I may have recorded the values before or after such revision # in other basins, if not stated in comment otherwise, the values may be from https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/ # or...