Jamaica Gleaner

2020 Atlantic storms

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HURRICANE NAMES are pulled from six rotating lists maintained and updated by the World Meteorolog­ical Organizati­on. Storm names are retired only when those storms are particular­ly deadly or costly. Here are the 2020 storm names and activity so far.

TROPICAL STORM

ARTHUR

May 16: Tropical Storm Arthur forms about 190 miles east-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. May 19: Weakens to a post-tropical cyclone. BERTHA

May 27: Tropical Storm Bertha forms near the coast of South Carolina and then makes landfall approximat­ely 20 miles east of Charleston. May 28: Weakens to a post-tropical cyclone. CRISTOBAL

June 2: Tropical Storm Cristobal forms in the southern Gulf of Mexico.

June 3: Makes landfall in southern Mexico near the town of Atasta.

June 7: Makes landfall in Louisiana. June 8: Weakens to a tropical depression. DOLLY

June 23: Tropical Storm Dolly forms. June 24: Weakens to a post-tropical cyclone. EDOUARD

July 5: Tropical Storm Edouard forms. July 6: Weakens to a post-tropical cyclone. FAY

July 9: Tropical Storm Fay forms off the coast of North Carolina.

July 10: Makes landfall in New Jersey.

July 11: Weakens to a tropical depression.

TROPICAL STORM

GONZALO

July 22: Tropical Storm Gonzalo forms in the

Atlantic.

July 25: Weakens to a tropical depression. HANNA

July 23: Tropical Storm Hanna forms in the Gulf of Mexico.

July 25: Hanna strengthen­s into a Category 1 hurricane and later makes landfall on Padre Island, Texas.

July 26: Weakens to a tropical storm, and then to a tropical depression. ISAIAS

July 29: Tropical Storm Isaias forms in the Caribbean.

July 30: Isaias strengthen­s into a hurricane. August 3: Isaias makes landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina.

August 4: Is downgraded to a tropical storm as it continues to move up the East Coast.

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