2020 Atlantic hurricane season

The **2020 Atlantic hurricane season** is the first hurricane season on record in which nine tropical storms formed before August 1. It is an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season officially started on June 1 and will officially end on November 30; however, the formation of tropical cyclones is possible at any time, as illustrated by the formations of tropical storms Arthur and Bertha, on May 16 and 27, respectively, marking the sixth consecutive year with pre-season systems. Earlier than normal activity continued into June, with Tropical Storm Cristobal becoming the earliest third named storm on record when it formed on June 2. In July, tropical storms Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, and Isaias became the earliest fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth named storms, forming on July 4, 9, 21, 23, and 30 respectively.

In May, Tropical Storm Bertha caused over $200 million (2020 USD) in damage and one fatality when it made landfall on and crossed the East Coast of the United States. A week later, Cristobal caused 15 deaths and $675 million in damage across Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States. In July, Fay caused tropical storm force winds across Delaware, New Jersey, and coastal New York, resulting in $400 million in damage and six deaths. Gonzalo brought minor impacts to southern parts of the Lesser Antilles. Hanna, the season's first hurricane, made landfall in South Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, leaving at least $500 million in damage. Isaias, the second hurricane of the season, brought impacts to part of the Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, the Bahamas, the Turk and Caicos Islands, brought rain and winds to Florida, made landfall in North Carolina at the same intensity, and brought impacts and power outages in parts of the East Coast of the United States.

## Seasonal summary

*See also: Timeline of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season*

## Systems

### Tropical Storm Arthur

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Storm Bertha

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Storm Cristobal

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Storm Dolly

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Storm Edouard

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Storm Fay

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Storm Gonzalo

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Hurricane Hanna

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Hurricane Isaias

 Duration
 Peak intensity

### Tropical Depression Ten

 Duration
 Peak intensity

## Storm names

The following list of names will be used for named storms that form in the North Atlantic in 2020. Retired names, if any, will be announced by the World Meteorological Organization during the joint 42nd and 43rd Sessions of the RA IV Hurricane Committee in the spring of 2021 (in concurrence with any names from the 2019 season). The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2026 season. This is the same list used in the 2014 season, as no names were retired from that year. The name *Isaias* was used for the first time this year. Isaias was the replacement name for Ike after 2008, but went unused in 2014.

* Bertha
* Cristobal
* Dolly
* Edouard
* Fay
* Gonzalo
* Isaias
* Josephine *(unused)*
* Kyle *(unused)*
* Laura *(unused)*
* Marco *(unused)*
* Nana *(unused)*
* Paulette *(unused)*
* Rene *(unused)*
* Sally *(unused)*
* Teddy *(unused)*
* Vicky *(unused)*
* Wilfred *(unused)*

If the 21 names listed above are exhausted during the season, the National Hurricane Center would turn to the 24-letter Greek alphabet for storm names, beginning with Alpha, as it did during the 2005 hurricane season.

## Season effects

This is a table of all of the storms that have formed in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s)—denoted by bold location names, damages, and death totals. 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. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2020 U.S. dollars.