Hypercane Karen (2019 - Hype)

Hypercane Karen, was the most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. It affected a wide path of landmasses from Cape Verde all the way to Newfoundland. It killed over 2 million people from both direct and indirect effects, therefore making it the costliest Atlantic hurricane ever as well.

Meteorological History
The origins of Karen can be traced to a tropical wave leaving the coast of west Africa on July 13th. Once out to the warm waters of the Atlantic the wave began to develop almost immediately after emerging into the Atlantic. By the next day the wave became sufficiently organized enough to become Tropical Depression Eleven while southeast of Cape Verde. Continuing westward, Eleven would slowly strengthen near the islands. On July 15th, while south of Cape Verde, it strengthened further to tropical storm intensity, and was named "Karen". Karen would spend the next day and a half of strengthening gradually. Early on July 17th, while moving away from Cape Verde, Karen was found to have had 64 kt (74 mph) winds near a developing eye-like feature, this along with a central dense overcast that formed near the feature supported the upgrade to hurricane strength. Exceptionally warm waters, as high as  was laying in Karen's path, along with virtually no wind shear made Karen start intensifying somewhat quickly. By July 20th, it had become a powerful category five hurricane while half-way to the Lesser Antilles; however, unexpectedly sea surface temperatures continued to rise, fueling further intensification to higher categories. A day and a half later, it became a very strong category six hurricane while getting closer and closer to the Lesser Antilles, and the rapid strengthening was nowhere near finished. Sea surface temperatures were still climbing as it got closer and closer to the Lesser Antilles, they were getting as high as, fueling more strengthening for Karen. Eventually, Karen got so giant in size and strong in strength that it eroded the far western end of the Azores High making it then be able to go close to the East Coast and the Bahamas without re-curving too much. Finally, Karen achieved peak strength of 555 mph just north of Hispaniola, and due to it being over 2,200 miles in size, it devastated most of the Caribbean Islands, leaving mass destruction and death behind its wake. Karen would soon start gradually weakening as it started to re-curve slowly. Passing by the East Coast from category ten strength to category three strength as it started to race towards Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Karen made its first and final landfall in Newfoundland as a category two hurricane with winds of 105 mph, it would soon become extratropical shortly after still at category two equivalent strength and race off to the northeast before dissipating completely about 2 days later.