2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

Fish out of water!

 

I think this is a joke ....



Anyhow, Turkey Day means we're near the end of the season. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Hurricane season ends after record 30 named storms, 12 US landfalls

It's officially over.
After six long months and 30 storms from Arthur to Iota, the record-shattering 2020 Atlantic hurricane season ends Monday.
A typical season sees only 12 storms.
All preseason forecasts said an active season was likely, but none came close to the actual number.
Of the 30 storms, 12 hit U.S. shores, also a record number. The previous record was nine, set way back in 1916.

 

I ain’t calling it over until midnight.

 

I'm waiting to see if any late-arriving hurricanes hit Georgia or Pennsylvania before I accept the end.

 

For as busy as it was, and there were a few destructive storms -- including two or three that came my way -- for some reason it didn't feel like it was as bad as some of the mid-2000s seasons. Not sure if that's the pandemic and election stealing most of the news coverage, or just a lot of these storms fizzling out to a degree, or maybe it's just me. But this did not seem nearly as fatiguing as, say, the 2004 and 2005 seasons when it felt like there was a Cat 5 bearing down on some part of the Gulf Coast every week.

 

The only landfalling Cat 5 this year was the last one — Iota.

 

It's not your imagination.

2005 was worse than 2020 in every metric except for "number of named storms." It had more hurricanes (15-13), more major hurricanes (7-6), more Cat 5s (4-1), more fatalities (3,912-436) and more total damage ($228 billion-$41 billion, adjusted for inflation), and most important, more damage to BTExpress' house ($5,200-$0). It also had this thing called Katrina.

2004 had another 3,261 fatalities. Florida got hit with four hurricanes in six weeks, 3 of them major.

 

Here's a pretty good map.