Hurricanes

The 2018 season

114 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Tracks

The track of every 2018 storm in every basin on one map, colored by the strength it held at each point. Each storm is listed below with its own page.

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Deaths and damage

11 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 330 people in all, and 3 as having done damage, $15 billion of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

16 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 8 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 126.9.

Eastern Pacific

26 storms, 23 at tropical storm strength, 13 hurricanes, 10 major; accumulated cyclone energy 318.5.

Western Pacific

36 storms, 32 at tropical storm strength, 16 typhoons, 9 major; accumulated cyclone energy 358.6.

North Indian

14 storms, 8 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 36.6.

South Indian

14 storms, 14 at tropical storm strength, 10 at hurricane force, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 132.3.

South Pacific

8 storms, 8 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 63.1.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.