Colorado State University’s hurricane research team, perhaps the best-known and most-often quoted forecasting service, last week revised its prediction for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season downward slightly – to eight hurricanes, three of them major.
That’s almost in line with another, lesser-known forecast service known as Global Weather Oscillations, led by former National Weather Service and U.S. Air Force meteorologist David Dilley, with offices in Ocala and Tampa, Florida. Dilley’s model takes it a step further and predicts where the hurricanes will make landfall, within 100 miles or so.
He’s calling for one hurricane to