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THE MEAN SEASON

Hurricane predictors admit: We can't predict hurricanes

'We're discontinuing our early December quantitative forecast for the next year'

(OTTAWACITIZEN) — OTTAWA — Two top U.S. hurricane forecasters, famous across Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice of making a seasonal forecast in December because it doesn’t work.

William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say a look back shows their past 20 years of forecasts had no predictive value.

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