Hurricane Arthur (AveryTheComrade)

Hurricane Arthur was a rare early season major hurricane that caused heavy damage in Mexico and much of the Texas coastline. It was the first named storm, hurricane, and major hurricane in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, it developed from a small low over Nicaragua into a tropical depression on June 16, it tracked north of Central America as a depression in unfavorable conditions before becoming a tropical storm early on June 17. Despite the unfavorable conditions in the northwestern Caribbean at the time, it rapidly intensified to become a hurricane later on the 17th. As it approached landfall in the Yucatan it once again weakened to a strong tropical storm before coming ashore early on the 18th. Arthur spent a few hours over the northern Yucatan before moving into the southern Gulf of Mexico where it once again began to slowly intensify. As Arthur moved into more favorable conditions it once again regained hurricane status early on the 19th. Arthur's intensification then slowed as shear increased in the northern Bay of Campeche, however it maintained hurricane status. After a couple of days of meandering towards the Mexican coastline Arthur began once again rapidly intensifying into a strong category 2 hurricane on the 21st, then a category 3 later that day. Arthur became a category 4 late on the 21st, the strongest June hurricane ever recorded, however conditions near the coast quickly deteriorated and it weakened to a category 3 again before making landfall early on the 22nd. Models suggested Arthur would rapidly weaken as it moved inland, however it remained a tropical storm for nearly a day over land before emerging back into the Gulf near southern Texas. Heavy shear near Texas prevented Arthur from intensifying back into a hurricane, however rain totals in some areas along the Texas coastline reached upwards of 5 inches. Arthur made its final landfall south of Galveston, Texas on the 24th and later dissipated over Northern Texas on the 25th. Damages from Arthur are estimated at around 1.7 billion US Dollars, and Fatalities reached 176, with 57 missing.