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The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 20 named storms forming, [nb 1] tied with 1933.Among them, 7 became hurricanes, with 3 reaching major hurricane strength.
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season saw an above average number of named storms and an average number of hurricanes and major hurricanes (category 3 or higher on the 5-level Saffir–Simpson wind speed scale).
However, many seasons (most recently 2023) did not have any names retired. The record for number of storm names retired from a single season is five, held by the 2005 season. The most names retired for a decade was 24 in the 2000s, followed by the 16 retirements resulting from hurricanes in the 2010s.
Hurricane season 2023 has only just begun, but forecasters already know all the names they’ll use for any big storms. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
In 2022, parts of the hurricane-fatigued Gulf Coast finally got a bit of a reprieve. Areas from southern Texas to the Florida Panhandle were peppered by numerous storms in 2020 and 2021, with ...
Nigel strengthened into the 5th hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season early Monday morning after becoming the 14th named storm of the season over the weekend.
The 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes as of January 2023.. As of November 2024, there have been 1,745 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 971 at hurricane intensity, and 338 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851, the first Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the official Atlantic tropical cyclone record. [1]
It then began to rapidly intensify and became the first major hurricane of the 2023 Pacific hurricane season at 15:00 UTC on July 14. In the Western Pacific, after several weeks of inactivity, on July 12, a tropical depression formed off the coast of Aurora, Philippines. It made landfall in Dinapigue, Isabela on the next day.