# Hurrican predictions for past 20 years

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurrican-predictions-for-past-20-years/415460 "2007-08-13T18:29:44Z")\
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What were the original (usually sometime in May) hurricane forecasts for the past 20 years?

I’ve been able to find them as far back as 2003, with one year way under (2005), one year way over (2006), and two pretty close (2003 and 2004).

I’m just curious how close the inital projections end up matching up.