2021 Atlantic hurricane season (Avdis)

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season marked the end of a streak of above-average tropical cyclone seasons in the Atlantic basin. This season saw below-to-near-average activity, with only 10 named storms forming, of which 5 became hurricanes (and 2 became major hurricanes).

The most notable storm of the season was by far Hurricane Ana, which after affecting Haiti (already hard-hit during the 2020 season) as a Category 1 storm, resulting in hundreds of fatalities, went on to intensify to a Category 4 storm off the coast of Florida, strongly affecting the United States East Coast before making landfall in New England as a Category 2, the first system to do so since Bob 20 years earlier.

Another noticeable storm was Hurricane Elsa, a long-lived storm roaring in the Atlantic for almost a month, before making an extremely rare landfall as a tropical storm in France.