Hurricanes

The 2020 season

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

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Tracks

The track of every 2020 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

19 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 498 people in all, and 11 as having done damage, $42 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

31 storms, 30 at tropical storm strength, 14 hurricanes, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 178.1.

Eastern Pacific

21 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 4 hurricanes, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 77.3.

Western Pacific

28 storms, 23 at tropical storm strength, 12 typhoons, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 151.9.

North Indian

9 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 31.2.

South Indian

17 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 9 at hurricane force, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 88.4.

South Pacific

11 storms, 10 at tropical storm strength, 6 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 62.0.

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.