Press Start to start the hurricane season! Press the green flag, then reset, then start to restart the hurricane season all over again. Press m for no music. Music credited to Force Thirteen! POST YOUR OWN SEASONS IN THE COMMENTS BELOW! Water Temperature: Dark Blue = Cold Blue = Moderate Light Blue = Warm Very Bright Blue = Very Warm Bluish White = Crazy warm Land: Bright Green = Low lying land Green = High lying land Dark Green = Mountains The warmer the water, the stronger storms could get. The colder the water, the weaker storms can get. Peak month: September
Last changed: 3-21-19 Records last updated: 6-4-20 Changes: Expanded areas for development in August, September, October, November, and December, including the open Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Reduced area for May development, excluding Eastern Caribbean, and June development, excluding most of the MDR. Expanded possible track directions at formation in all months. Added further checks to deter storms from reaching the Equator. (Erin 2109, I'm looking at you. You don't get to stick around an extra month by escaping off the map into the South Atlantic. Not anymore.) Minor tweaks to the process of rapid intensification. Made tracks of slow-moving storms more unpredictable. Fixed edge bugs. Slightly reduced tendency for anticyclonic loops. Fixed a bug that sometimes gave quickly intensifying depressions the wrong names when they reached TS strength (don't ask). Added EPAC SSTs. Crossovers are rare, but do occur. Prevented storms from forming on top of preexisting ones. Prevented storms from forming in January under rare circumstances, which would trigger other anomalous behavior. Added "records" section (scroll down). Some of the entries are just from memory and are probably inaccurate, but they're good enough for now. Updated names to account for 2018 retirements. Downsides and unfixable bugs: Storms with completely unrealistic tracks now form approximately 0.4 times per season. Fujiwhara interactions have not been improved at all, and storms can pass through each other sometimes. Depressions strengthening to storms in the EPAC receive Atlantic names. Months of dissipation are wrong in the logs for storms for which the month changes during their final post-tropical duration. In the unlikely event that two depressions form in one calendar year but strengthen into tropical storms in the next, they will receive the same name. ACE accumulated during January counts toward the season total, unlike in real life. Storms approaching, but not directly making landfall upon, islands do not reliably produce damage. Records: "category: personal record (overall)" (Storm records) Strongest storm: 255MPH Strongest storm by month: May: 155MPH June: 175MPH July: 200MPH August: 235MPH September: 255MPH October: 210MPH November: 235MPH December: 175MPH January: 150MPH Strongest storm in the East Pacific: 170MPH Fastest intensification (24h): 135MPH Longest-lived storm: 55 days Longest-lived TD: 17 days (49 days, Preximity) Longest-lived TS: 30 days Shortest-lived hurricanes by peak category: C1: 2 days C2: ? C3: ? C4: ? C5: 6 days Most ACE for one storm: 135 Most ACE per category: TS: 10 C1: 30 C2: 33 (38, kindofameme) C3: 50 C4: 68 C5: 104 C6: 135 Weakest "strongest" storm: 95MPH Costliest storm: $4300B Deadliest storm: 68K (Formation records) Earliest named storm formed: May 1 Latest named storm dissipated: Jan 15 (Jan 27, Preximity | Jan 19, kindofameme) Earliest named storms per ordinal of formation: 1st: May 1 2nd: May 4 3rd: May 11 4th: June 2 5th: June 15 6th: June 22 7th: June 30 8th: July 3 9th and on: ? Latest first named storm: August 5 Most named storms forming per month: May: 3 (although 6 depressions formed one season) June: 6 July: 6 August: 8 September: 9 October: 7 November: 5 December: 3 January: 1 (Fewest is 0 for every month.) Most consecutive hurricanes: 9 Most consecutive TS's: 9 Most consecutive hurricanes by category: C1: 4 C2: 2 C3: 3 C4: 3 C5: 2 C6: 1 (Season records) Most total storms in a season: 33 Most TS's in a season: 28 Most hurricanes in a season: 19 Most major hurricanes in a season: 9 Fewest total storms in a season: 18 Fewest TS's in a season: 12 Fewest hurricanes in a season: 3 (1, kindofameme) Fewest major hurricanes in a season: 0 Most storms by peak category: TD: 13 TS: 18 C1: 10 C2: 7 C3: 5 C4: 6 C5: 3 C6: 2 Fewest peak TDs: 0 Fewest peak TSs: 3 Highest season ACE: 401 Lowest season ACE: 53 Highest ACE per named storm: 18.6 Lowest ACE per named storm: 2.8 (Miscellaneous) Most storms entering the Eastern Pacific in a season: 3 Most basin crossovers for a single storm: 3 Most total storms without a major hurricane: 28 Latest occurrence of 3 simultaneous storms: December 15 Most ACE in a season without a category 6: 280 Most ACE for a storm without impacting land: 98
