Talk:2017 Atlantic hurricane season/HurricaneMaker99's version/@comment-3141559-20180606214941

A recap:


 * I don't know how on Earth I managed to successfully predict we'd have an April storm to kick off the 2017 AHS... talk about dumb luck!


 * Obviously the actual season was much more active than I had called for, with the seasonal total of 17-10-6 dwarfing my 2012 prediction of 13-7-3


 * My Maria prediction was comical in hindsight - a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane, represented here as an epic fail!


 * Accurately predicted that Harvey would be retired (though it would be replaced with Harold instead of Homer)


 * The tracks that I had schemed up in Google Earth showed Jose as a particularly severe hurricane for Texas - while the real Jose never made landfall, Texas was indeed dealt a catastrophic blow from a hurricane in 2017


 * Also correctly predicted the Leewards would be pummeled, though the work of Harvey in the hypothetical season would be carried out by Irma and Maria in real life


 * Somehow managed to accurately predict Emily and Jose's peak windspeeds to a tee


 * Correctly predicted this season would boast three consecutive major hurricanes, and that those hurricanes would be Harvey, Irma, and Jose (though the real Irma was considerably more intense than the Irma shown here)


 * I'm perfectly fine with my intensity forecasts for Franklin and Lee being too conservative - was very happy to see both names reach hurricane strength for the first time in 2017 (at least in the Atlantic basin - I believe there was at least one Typhoon Lee in the WPAC)


 * On the other hand, Bret and Don remain weak names (except of course for Bret's 1999 incarnation)