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I'm predicting that Cindy hits Cat 2 and makes landfall at Cat 1. Moderate damage, no retirement.
I'm predicting that Emiy hits Cat 4 but stays out to sea, curving back toward Europe where the remnants give heavy rain to the UK. No retirement.
I'm predicting that Harvey hits Cat 5 and causes damage enough to be retired, the only retired hurricane of the season.
I'm predicting that Katia hits Cat 3 but makes landfall as a tropical storm. No retirement.
I predict that Ophelia is the last storm of the season, and that the season is "back-loaded", with a slow ramp-up and September having the most systems, with October a close second and the most active period being the second half of September through the first third of October. The most concurrent systems: three on September 29.
Here's my predictions for the dates of each hurricane:
Arlene - Apr. 19-21
Bret - July 16-19
Cindy - Aug. 14-20
Don - Aug. 29-Sept. 2
Emily - Sept. 2-12 (Cape Verde!)
Franklin - Sept. 15-20
Gert - Sept. 24-29
Harvey - Sept. 26-Oct. 11 (Cape Verde!)
Irma - Sept. 29-Oct. 4
Jose - Oct. 2-6
Katia - Oct. 8-15
Lee - Oct. 16-21
Maria - Oct. 24-25
Nate - Nov. 1-3
Ophelia - Dec. 19-24
Wow WaWa at the details! lol Nice. I was thinking we wont get past 11 names this year and most of them coming between June 20-August 10. Will vote soon obviously gonna be a wild guess.
I predict a very active season with Don, Harvey, Jose, Lee, Maria, Ophelia, and Philippe all peaking as cat 2's or higher.
More importantly, I predict that Maria and Ophelia will both be devastating storms for the U.S.
Maria will peak at a cat 5 and make landfall as a high cat 3 right in the heart of Miami Beach and will rival Andrew in terms of destructiveness (even though not as strong as Andrew at landfall, it will cover more in terms of area/size).
Ophelia will peak at a high cat 4 and make landfall as a low end cat 2 in New Jersey near Atlantic City. It will cover a wide area causing widespread flooding/damage in NJ.
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