Question: Hurricane Fico was the longest lived hurricane of what hurricane season?

 The sixth tropical storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane, Fico developed from a tropical disturbance off the Pacific coast of Mexico on July 9.  It moved northwestward and then westward, quickly reaching peak winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) on July 12.  Moving nearly due westward, the intensity of Fico fluctuated from Category 1 to Category 4 status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale for the following days, and it passed about 170 miles (275 km) south of Hawaii on July 20 with winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). Hurricane Fico was the longest-lived hurricane of the 1978 Pacific hurricane season and became the longest-lasting Pacific hurricane on record, a record broken by Hurricane Tina fourteen years later.  Fico slowly weakened as it turned to the northwest over cooler waters, and became an extratropical cyclone on July 28 to the northeast of Midway Island. <SEP>  These dates conventionally delimit the period of time when tropical cyclones form in the eastern north Pacific Ocean. The 1978 Pacific hurricane season officially began May 15, 1978, in the eastern Pacific, June 1, 1978, in the central Pacific, and officially ended 30 November 1978. <SEP> The 2003 Atlantic hurricane season was an active Atlantic hurricane season with tropical activity before and after the official bounds of the season – the first such occurrence in 49 years.  The season produced 21 tropical cyclones, of which 16 developed into named storms; seven cyclones attained hurricane status, of which three reached major hurricane status.  With sixteen storms, the season was tied for the sixth most active Atlantic hurricane season on record.  The strongest hurricane of the season was Hurricane Isabel, which reached Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale northeast of the Lesser Antilles; Isabel later struck North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane, causing $3.6 billion in damage (2003 USD, $  USD) and a total of 51 deaths across the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. <SEP> The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active hurricane season with sixteen named storms formed, including eight that became hurricanes and five that became major hurricanes.  The season officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30.  These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.  However, the formation of Tropical Storm Arthur caused the season to start two days early.  This season is the fifth most costly on record, behind only the 2004, 2005, 2012, and 2017 seasons, with over $47.5 billion in damage (2008 USD).  It was the fourth busiest year since 1944 and the only year on record in which a major hurricane existed in every month from July through November in the North Atlantic.  Bertha became the longest lived July tropical cyclone on record for the basin, the first of several long-lived systems during 2008.  The season was devastating for Haiti, where over 800 people were killed by four consecutive tropical cyclones (Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike), especially Hanna, in August and September.  Hurricane Paloma's outer rain bands also made landfall over Haiti.  Ike was also the most destructive storm of the season, as well as the strongest, devastating Cuba as a major hurricane and later making landfall near Galveston, Texas at Category 2 (nearly Category 3) intensity.