 With 13 tropical storms , two hurricanes , and no major hurricanes , activity fell far below the predictions . Brian McNoldy at the University of Miami noted several reasons why NOAA should not cease seasonal predictions , including the variability of hurricane seasons and the value of supplementing climatology with seasonal forecasts . Further , McNoldy argued that forecasting a hurricane season " challenges us to better understand how the atmosphere works . " On November 29 , Dr. Phil Klotzbach of CSU noted that " [ Dr. Gray and I ] have been doing these forecasts for 30 years and that 's probably the biggest forecast bust that we 've had . " The program , which had already lost contributions from an insurance company in June , was defunded further following the botched season forecasts . However , Gray and Klotzbach were able to issue predictions for the 2014 season . 
