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It was also the most intense tropical cyclone in the 2020 part of the 2019–20 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. With the month of March being the least active of the year, Intense Tropical Cyclone Herold formed, becoming the first major tropical cyclone, which is Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson scale.
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 and subtropical cyclones, with all but one cyclone becoming a named storm.
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.
Isaias was the second tropical cyclone to affect the two states in a 3-week time span after Tropical Storm Fay in early July. [2] In New Jersey , the storm spawned a tornado that brought winds as high as 109 mph (175 km/h) just off the coast in Long Beach Island , as well as heavy rainfall up to 5.41 in (137 mm) causing numerous power outages.
Hurricane Zeta was a late-season tropical cyclone in 2020 that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and then in southeastern Louisiana, the latest on record to do so at such strength in the United States.
Hurricane Marco was the first of two tropical cyclones to threaten the Gulf Coast of the United States within a three-day period. The thirteenth named storm and third hurricane of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Marco developed from a fast-moving tropical wave west of the Windward Islands and south of Jamaica on August 20.
Tropical Storm Beta was a tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall, flooding, and severe weather to the Southeastern United States in September 2020. The twenty-third tropical depression and twenty-third named storm of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Beta originally formed from a trough of low pressure that developed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on September 10.
It was the first Category 5 tropical cyclone in 2020. The seventh named storm of the 2019–20 Australian region cyclone season , eighth named storm, and fourth severe tropical cyclone of the 2019–20 South Pacific cyclone season , Harold was first noted as a developing tropical low within a trough of low pressure during April 1, while it was ...