What is an analog hurricane season? Why you should know this

Because we haven’t gotten our first named storm into open air quite yet, there’s a lot of chatter on the internet about whether or not this season will ever get going. It will, rest assured, we just have to give it time.  To help better explain why a season is behaving the way that it is, we lean on something called “analogs.” Analogs are often used pretty routinely when developing the pre-seasonal forecasts we broke down leading up to the beginning of our hurricane season.