Photo by Andrew Albosta.

This year Washington has seen extreme weather, in the form of Snowmageddon this past February, extreme heat this summer, and severe thunderstorms. Even the experts agree that this has been an unusual year weather-wise. A natural question to ask, of course, is what’s next? Unfortunately Davy DCist was unavailable to make predictions this weekend, so instead we can turn to old reliable, the Farmer’s Almanac. The predictions aren’t pretty: it appears the Northeast, and the Mid-Atlantic are in for … yep, Hurricanes.

Now, of course the reliability of the Farmer’s Almanac can easily be called into question. The Almanac’s predictions are made sometimes years in advance, using some sort of top-secret formula constructed by an anonymous forecaster known only as Caleb Weatherbee. The publisher likes to tout a high accuracy rate, and boasted that the Farmer’s Almanac predicted this February’s massive snowstorms.

The science, or lack thereof, behind the Almanac aside, let’s look at what they are predicting. It’s mostly the usual, fair weather with chance of thunderstorms, hot weather with chance of thunderstorms. Nothing outlandish.

But then we’ve got predictions of various hurricane threats. Yep, August 28-31 is a hurricane threat for the Northeast region. Another hurricane threat September 8-11. Oh and a very special tropical storm threat for the mid-Atlantic on September 20-23. We’re also looking at more thunderstorms. The only good news? An unseasonably cold October.

Of course these predictions should be taken with a grain of salt, but even the Weather Channel is talking about how hurricane season may be poised to ramp-up.

Hurricanes and tropical storms are not unheard of in the mid-Atlantic, and D.C. has seen its share in the past. It’s been a while since we’ve had a hurricane, Isabel struck in 2003, but was barely Category 1 by the time it reached our area. In 2008, we were hit by Tropical Storm Hanna. With the weather we’ve seen this year, though, it’s probably best to start panicking now over the threat of Hurricanapoolza 2010. Even without knowing the precise dangers, it may be time to consider cracking each other’s heads open and feasting on the goo inside.