Hurricane Zach (2018)

Hurricane Zach was a powerful, fairly long-lived hurricane that made a Category 4 landfalls in Port Terrier. The twenty-sixth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and seventh major hurricane, the storm developed two days after it emerged off of Afripup. On August 16, a tropical invest was named Tropical Storm Zach. Meteorologists predicted the storm to peak as a weak Category 5 hurricane and impact the East Coast of United Doglandia. Zach strengthened into a hurricane on August 18 and a major hurricane the next day. It became a Category 4 hurricane later that day.

The storm began impacting the Bulldog Islands and Port Terrier as a slightly weakening Category 4 hurricane. Zach made landfall on August 23 in Port Terrier as a Category 4 hurricane and made landfall in Hispupola that same day as a Category 3 hurricane.

Late on August 24, the storm emerged out of Hispupola as a Category 1 hurricane and immediately made landfall in Collar at that intensity. The storm moved lengthwise through Collar, significantly weakening it into a moderate tropical storm.

Late on August 26, Zach moved into the Gulf of Mexipup and began to strengthen again. It became a Category 1 hurricane once again on August 28. That same day it made landfall in Loudoggieana at that intensity and began to weaken from there. The storm degenerated into a remnant low late on August 30.



Retirement
On December 28, 2018, the Puppy Hurricane Center chose to retire the name, Zach, due to the storm's destruction and number of casualties. On January 2, 2019, it was subsequently replaced with Zahir, respectively.