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The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, in terms of number of systems. It featured a total of 31 tropical or subtropical cyclones, with all but one cyclone becoming a named storm. Of the 30 named storms, 14 developed into hurricanes, and a record-tying seven further intensified into major ...
Dec 1, 2020 · The strongest Atlantic storm of 2020, Hurricane Iota, as seen at 10 a.m. EST November 16. At the time, Iota, a category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and a central pressure of 917 mb, was approaching landfall in northern Nicaragua. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory) The brutal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has officially ended, after ...
- Most Storms in A Season
- Most Storms to Rapidly Strengthen
- Seven Category 5 Storms in 5 Years
- Record U.S. Landfalls
- Where 2020 Fell Short
So far, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has spawned 30 tropical storms, forcing forecasters to dig deep into the Greek alphabet for names, having run out of the assigned namesin the middle of September. This breaks the former record set in 2005 of 28 named storms. A typical season only produces 12 named storms, so 2020 has already seen two and a...
While the first half of the 2020 season included incessant storms, they were mainly weak. That changed during peak season, August through October, and especially this autumn, no doubt owing partially to the development of the Pacific La Niña and the fact that the storms developed in the Caribbean — as they typically do during the fall — where some ...
Until mid-November, one check-box left unchecked this season was a Category 5 hurricane. That changed when Hurricane Iota attained winds of 160 mph. It is the most intense storm on record that late in an Atlantic hurricane season. In each of the last five hurricane seasons we have seen at least one Category 5 hurricane — seven of them in total. Thi...
So far this season there have been 12 U.S. landfalls, shattering the old record of nine set in 2016. In what was a relentless season for people living near the Gulf of Mexico, nine of this year's landfalls happened along the U.S. Gulf Coast and five of them occurred in Louisiana. And in what may be the most freakish of occurrences, dual hurricane l...
While 2020 overperformed in nearly every category, there is one surprising statistic which was not all that impressive: Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). This is a widely used metric for meteorologists to estimate the intensity of a hurricane season because it is an aggregation of the strength and longevity of all storms. To be sure, ACE was far ab...
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Jun 11, 2021 · The National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center's Tropical Cyclone Reports (TCRs) contain information on all tropical (and subtropical) cyclones that have occurred within the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and central Pacific basins, including synoptic history, meteorological statistics, casualties and damages, and the post-analysis best track (six-hourly positions and intensities).
Oct 6, 2020 · 3 Storms Form in Single Day, Tying a Record. Sept. 18, 2020, will be known in history for a frenetic burst of three Atlantic named storm formations in just six hours. Tropical Storm Wilfred formed ...
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record in terms of number of named storms. Additionally, it was an above-average season for tropical cyclones for the fifth consecutive year. [nb 2] [2] The season officially began on June 1, 2020, and ended on November 30, 2020.
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Nearly every port along the Gulf and South Atlantic coast endured closures and disruptions due to hurricanes and tropical storms in 2020. In total, 24 of our profiled ports (with 9 along the Atlantic and 15 along the Gulf coasts) were impacted by at least 1 hurricane or tropical storm. Additionally, the ports of Freeport, Galveston, Houston ...
