Due to its precursor disturbance already having gale-force winds, it was immediately declared a tropical storm and given the name "Isaias". [93], The Bermuda Weather Service issued a gale warning for the entirety of the island chain in advance of the system on July 4. Hurricane Epsilon (2020), late-season Category 3 hurricane that tracked east of Bermuda. [177] Shortly after moving into the Gulf of Mexico, the system strengthened into Tropical Storm Sally at 18:00 UTC the same day. [114] The storm fluctuated in intensity afterwards, due to strong wind shear and dry air, with the storm reaching its initial peak intensity later that day, with sustained winds peaking at 85 mph (137 km/h) and its central pressure falling to 987 mbar (29.1 inHg). Hanna becam… [165] Total economic losses in Belize exceeded $20 million. [346], After the 2005 hurricane season, the WMO hurricane committee decided to keep using the Greek letter names as an auxiliary list each year, determining that retiring a Greek letter name by removing the name from use was not feasible. Early in the year, officials in the United States expressed concerns the hurricane season could potentially exacerbate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for U.S. coastal residents. [201] Satellite data received shortly after 06:00 UTC the following day indicated that Teddy had quickly intensified into an 85 mph (140 km/h) hurricane. The Greek alphabet was used for only the second time, starting with Subtropical Storm Alpha, which made landfall in Portugal. As more than 21 named storms occurred, storms that formed after Wilfred were assigned names corresponding to the letters of the Greek alphabet. The storm then peaked with sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1,003 mbar (29.6 inHg). The organization posted significantly heightened probabilities for hurricanes tracking through the Caribbean and hurricanes striking the U.S. Meanwhile, Hurricane Teddy went on to strike Atlantic Canada as an extremely large extratropical cyclone on September 23. Overall, damage from the storm on the US Eastern Coast was at least US$350 million, based on wind and storm surge damage on residential, commercial, and industrial properties. The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active and the fifth-costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record. The low-level circulation is stretched out along a north-south axis, with an area of lighter Delta explosively intensified into a strong Category 4 hurricane, before rapidly weakening and making landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula on October 7, as a high-end Category 2 hurricane. [269][270] The trailing weather fronts associated with this low produced waves up to 98 ft (30 m) on the coast of Ireland on October 28. As a result, the storm later weakened, becoming a tropical depression at 06:00 UTC on August 16, just north of the Virgin Islands. [278], As Epsilon began moving away from Bermuda on October 23, the tropical storm warning was cancelled. Omar decelerated due to a weak steering flow, turning northward on September 5, due to a southerly flow associated with a deep-layer trough. Although the low weakened as it headed south-southeastward, the wind field contracted and convection began forming closer to the circulation due to marginally warm sea surface temperatures and sufficient instability. [104] Six people were directly killed due to rip currents and storm surge associated with Fay. Early on September 21, Wilfred degenerated into an trough approximately 920 mi (1,480 km) east of the northernmost Leeward Islands. Heavy amounts of precipitation also occurred in northern Guatemala. The depression turned west-northwest and degraded into a remnant low later that day. [228] A woman died in Calzadilla after a roof collapsed. Afterward, the storm weakened as it wandered northward and then northeastward, before becoming extratropical on October 26. [108], The National Hurricane Center first began tracking a vigorous tropical wave off the coast of Africa on July 23. High winds downed many trees and caused numerous power outages in coastal Portugal. [279], On 21:00 UTC on October 24, a system had organized enough to be designated as Tropical Depression Twenty-Eight. [171], A tropical wave emerged into the Atlantic Ocean on September 6. [134] As the system moved across the central tropical Atlantic toward the Windward Islands, satellite imagery revealed that the system had developed a well-defined center of circulation with sufficient organized deep convection to be classified as a tropical depression at 03:00 UTC on August 20. [92] That changed late on July 5, when a large convective burst formed over the center, allowing it to strengthen into Tropical Storm Edouard at 00:00 UTC on July 6. 2020 CIMSS 27L Epsilon visible infrared map.GIF 800 × 600; 2.82 MB. Floodwaters entered dozens of building in low-lying areas. Deep convection began to diminish on the following day, causing Wilfred to weaken to a tropical depression around 12:00 UTC. [160], On August 27, the NHC began to monitor a tropical wave that was moving westward over the Atlantic. [175] At 21:00 UTC, the system had organized enough to be designated as Tropical Depression Nineteen. Tropical storms Edouard, Fay, and Gonzalo, along with hurricanes Hanna and Isaias, formed in July. [225], The tropical wave that spawned Tropical Storm Vicky produced flooding in the Cabo Verde Islands. [142] Afterward, it rapidly intensified into a major hurricane, with its sustained wind speeds increasing by 50 mph (80 km/h) during the 24 hours ending at 15:00 UTC on August 26, reaching 125 mph (200 km/h). A near-concurrent pass from another satellite showed lower winds and the higher winds were determined to be rain-inflated, and given the conflicting data the NHC determined the system to have not become a tropical storm. [229] Development of the system was not expected at the time due to strong upper-level winds produced by Hurricane Sally. [301] Eta reached its peak intensity of 150 mph (240 km/h) and a pressure of 923 mbar (27.26 inHg) at 06:00 UTC on November 3. Up to 9.6 in (243 mm) of rain fell in the Yucatán Peninsula, flooding sections of a highway. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. [295] Zeta flooded city streets and knocked out power to more than 2.6 million homes and businesses across the Southeastern United States; it also disrupted 2020 election early voting in several states. Cristobal made landfall as a strong tropical storm just west of Ciudad del Carmen at 13:35 UTC on June 3 at its peak intensity of 60 mph (95 km/h). [214] As Teddy began to undergo an extratropical transition on September 22, while moving toward Nova Scotia, its windfield expanded greatly, with hurricane-force winds extending outward up to 150 mi (240 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 550 mi (890 km). At 09:00 UTC on October 9, Delta reached its secondary peak intensity of 953 mb (28.14 inHg) and sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). By then, however, strong southwesterly shear and marginal sea-surface temperatures caused the Edouard to become elongated and it became an extratropical low just six hours later as its circulation merged with a frontal system about 490 miles east-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland at 00:00 UTC on July 7. Although the cyclone experienced periodic bursts of convection, strong wind shear eventually caused the storm to degenerate into a remnant low about 575 mi (925 km) northeast of Bermuda late on September 5. The season's third named storm and each one from the fifth onwards formed on an earlier date in the year than the corresponding storm in any other season since reliable records began in 1851. Though sea surface temperatures were relatively cold and there was moderate wind shear, the air mass was unstable enough to let Theta maintain its strength. At 12:00 UTC on September 9, Paulette reached its first peak intensity with 1-minute sustained winds of 60 mph (90 km/h) with a minimum central pressure of 996 mbar (29.39 inHg). [6][7] As expressed in an op-ed of the Journal of the American Medical Association, "there exists an inherent incompatibility between strategies for population protection from hurricane hazards: evacuation and sheltering (i.e., transporting and gathering people together in groups)," and "effective approaches to slow the spread of COVID-19: physical distancing and stay-at-home orders (i.e., separating and keeping people apart). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/world/americas/hurricane-epsilon.html After the wave reached the Gulf of Mexico, upper-level winds became more favorable. An increase in wind shear kept Omar weak. [12] Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. It soon dissipated on August 2 north of the Cabo Verde Islands. The list of storm names for the 2020 season was the same list used in the 2014 season, as no names were retired from that year. [288] Zeta continued to strengthen until it reached its peak intensity of 110 mph (175 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 970 mbar (28.64 inHg) as it made landfall in Cocodrie, Louisiana at 21:00 UTC. Its unusual rapid intensification over cool sea surface temperatures and moderate wind shear was unprecedented by forecasters and was also the farthest east any tropical cyclone had rapidly intensified this late in an Atlantic hurricane season. In El Salvador, a mudslide caused seven people to go missing. [346] Instead, if the regular naming list is exhausted, an auxiliary list consisting of 21 given names would be used, which will allow the names to be retired.[351]. An off-season Atlantic hurricane is a recorded tropical or subtropical cyclone that existed in the Atlantic basin outside of the official Atlantic hurricane season. September was the most active month on record in the Atlantic, with ten named storms. Reeves declares State of Emergency for Hurricane Delta", "Gov. Moving west-northwestward for much of its duration, Rene made landfall on Boa Vista Island around 00:00 UTC on September 8 with sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). The storm then moved over the northern Leeward islands, and it then strengthened as it approached Puerto Rico. [30] NOAA defines a season as above normal, near normal or below normal by a combination of the number of named storms, the number reaching hurricane strength, the number reaching major hurricane strength, and the ACE Index. [248] Later, at 18:00 UTC on October 4, the system was classified as Tropical Depression Twenty-Six. As Paulette accelerated northeastward, it began to start extratropical transition on September 15, which it completed the next day.[167]. By 06:00 UTC the next day, Theta had weakened to a tropical depression, and it degenerated to a remnant low six hours later. By 06:00 UTC on September 17, the system developed into Subtropical Storm Alpha roughly 405 mi (650 km) east of the Azores. [246] Gamma weakened some as it passed over the northern Yucatán, then emerged over the southern Gulf of Mexico early on October 4, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (95 km/h). [302] Later that day, at 21:00 UTC, it made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, with winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) and a pressure of 940 mbar (27.73 inHg). [183] It continued to steadily weaken as it moved extremely slowly northwest then north, although its pressure continued to fall. [77] Passing within 20 nautical miles of the Outer Banks, Arthur caused tropical storm force wind gusts and a single report of sustained tropical storm force winds at Alligator River Bridge. Hurricane Epsilon (2020) ... Media in category "2020 Atlantic hurricane season" The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. [334] Later that day, at 15:00 UTC, Iota reached Category 5 intensity, and also attained its peak intensity with winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 917 mb (27.08 inHg). In Walton County, Florida, a 33-year-old man drowned in rip currents while rescuing his son. In Wikipedia. Nonetheless, Josephine headed into increasingly hostile conditions as it began to pass north of the Leeward Islands. It is only calculated for full advisories on specific tropical and subtropical systems reaching or exceeding wind speeds of 39 mph (63 km/h). A well-defined center of circulation formed on September 17. All of the damage figures are in 2020 USD. More than 250 homes in Coahuila were inundated, while at least 45 neighborhoods in Reynosa reported flood damage. [119], Numerous tropical storm watches and warnings as well as hurricane watches and hurricane warnings were issued for the Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Bahamas, Cuba, and the entire East Coast of the United States. Josephine's intensity began to fluctuate on August 14, as wind-shear affected the system, causing convection to be displaced from the circulation. The low moved generally northward before being absorbed by a frontal system on the following day. Hurricane Zeta was the record-tying sixth hurricane to make landfall in the United States and the record fifth named storm to strike Louisiana in 2020. [233] Although affected by wind shear and dry air, the storm continued to intensify, reaching a peak intensity of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a pressure of 993 mb (29.33 inHg) at 15:00 UTC on September 19, with a brief mid-level eye visible on radar imagery. Marco passed just offshore of Honduras and, as a result of favorable atmospheric conditions, quickly intensified to an initial peak of 65 mph (105 km/h) and a pressure of 992 millibars (29.3 inHg), with a characteristic eye beginning to form on radar. [199] After overcoming persistent northerly shear,[200] the system became better organized and strengthened into Tropical Storm Teddy at 09:00 UTC on September 14. [312] Eta transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on November 13 while moving northeastward off the coast of the Carolinas. Impacts were relatively minor. [212] Later that day, the system began to merge with a mid-latitude trough;[213] the infusion of energy from the trough in combination with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream caused it to re-intensify to Category 2 hurricane late that night. The following 67 files are in this category, out of 67 total. After about five days of slow southward movement, the extratropical cyclone began to redevelop a warm core and its wind field shrank considerably. The storm continued to strengthen throughout the day, with an eyewall under a central dense overcast and hints of a developing eye becoming evident. HEAVILY WIP The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season was a Very hyperactive season that brought upon more damage than every season, even surpassing 2005. [182] However, upwelling due to its slow movement as well increasing wind shear weakened Sally back down to Category 1 strength early the next day. The letters Eta and Iota were also retired. [109] Immediately after the system was classified as a tropical depression, tropical storm watches were issued for much of the Texas shoreline. [211], While moving generally in a north-northeasterly direction across the central Atlantic, Teddy weakened to a Category 1 hurricane during the afternoon of September 21. [12] TSR updated their forecast on April 7, predicting 16 named storms, 8 hurricanes, 3 major hurricanes, and an ACE index of 130 units. [300] Eta's rapid intensification continued through that day, and by 21:00 UTC it had grown into a Category 4 hurricane. Hanna became the first hurricane of the season and struck South Texas, while Isaias became the second hurricane of the season and struck much of the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States. Strong westerly shear caused further weakening, with Rene degenerating into a trough about 1,035 mi (1,666 km) northeast of the Leeward Islands. [313], Hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings were issued along the Caribbean coast of Honduras and of Northeastern Nicaragua as Eta approached. [268] The hurricane also generated large sea swells from Bermuda to the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Leeward Islands. [nb 2] In late August, Laura made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, becoming the strongest tropical cyclone on record in terms of wind speed to make landfall in the state, alongside the 1856 Last Island hurricane. After a steady increase in deep convection, the low developed into a tropical depression around 18:00 UTC about 1,440 mi (2,315 km) east of the Windward Islands. Despite moderate-to-strong wind shear, Kyle strengthened and reached its peak intensity with 50 mph (80 km/h) maximum sustained winds at 06:00 UTC on August 15. [215] Later that same day, the hurricane weakened to Category 1 intensity,[216] before becoming a strong post-tropical cyclone at around 00:00 UTC on September 23. [64] Overall, Alpha caused at least $1 million in damage. 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