Because the gubermint hacks have to have the MAX number of named storms to support their globull warming scam.
The number of named storms is even more important than years earlier because the average temperatures are DROPPING, not rising as their CO2 correlation is NOT working (i.e. average temperatures are NOT rising as CO2 rises which means all of their models are WRONG).
As many do NOT know, the wx scam is made possible by the scammers correcting temperatures such that in past decades, the temperatures were COOLER than the recorded data shows and NOW, the temperatures are WARMER than the recorded data shows.
Adjusted temperatures are cooler before 2000 and warmer after 2000 than what was actually read. The adjusted temperatures show warming but actual data simply shows variations. The 1930's were hotter than anytime more recently.