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These Are the Names of the Record 29 Atlantic Storms This Year
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Tropical Storm Theta formed in the Atlantic as Tropical Storm Eta hit Florida and moved across northern Florida toward the Atlantic. Between them, they pushed the number of named storms in the Atlantic basin this year to 29, which is a record. The previous record was set in 2005, the year that Katrina savaged New Orleans.
The National Weather Center ran through the traditional list of storm names weeks ago. They had to move to the Greek alphabet to give names to the storms that occurred after that. The first of this year’s storms was Tropical Storm Arthur, which formed on May 16.
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The theory experts have put forward on the storm count mostly revolves around climate change. Warmer weather has increased the temperature in the Atlantic well west of where the storms hit Central America and the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration actually forecast this storm season would be especially brutal for that reason. August was the second warmest August on record worldwide, and NOAA issued the following statement: “The 3-month season from June through August 2020 was the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest meteorological summer on record, surpassing both 2019 and 2016 which were previously tied for hottest.”
These are the names of the 29 storms and the day in 2020 they formed.
| Storm | Formed |
|---|---|
| Tropical Storm Arthur | May 16 |
| Tropical Storm Bertha | May 27 |
| Tropical Storm Cristobal | June 2 |
| Tropical Storm Dolly | June 23 |
| Tropical Storm Edouard | July 5 |
| Tropical Storm Fay | July 9 |
| Tropical Storm Gonzalo | July 22 |
| Hurricane Hanna | July 23 |
| Hurricane Isaias | July 29 |
| Tropical Storm Josephine | August 13 |
| Tropical Storm Kyle | August 14 |
| Hurricane Laura | August 21 |
| Hurricane Marco | August 21 |
| Tropical Storm Nana | September 1 |
| Tropical Storm Omar | September 1 |
| Hurricane Paulette | September 7 |
| Tropical Storm Rene | September 7 |
| Hurricane Sally | September 12 |
| Hurricane Teddy | September 14 |
| Tropical Storm Vicky | September 14 |
| Tropical Storm Wilfred | September 18 |
| Tropical Storm Alpha | September 18 |
| Tropical Storm Beta | September 18 |
| Tropical Storm Gamma | October 2 |
| Hurricane Delta | October 5 |
| Hurricane Epsilon | October 19 |
| Hurricane Zeta | October 25 |
| Hurricane Eta | October 31 |
| Tropical Storm Theta | November 10 |
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