2019 Atlantic hurricane season (Doug)

The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season was a above average hurricane season featuring some powerful storms and mainly troipical storms unlike the previous year which had mainly subtropicla storms, including one which brought snow to the northeast after it became a subtropical storm in the Great Lakes, the season began on June 1 and ended on November 31, these deates determined how many cyclones can form in the year, however storms may form at anytime if conditions on favorable. The season started early again with Tropical Storm Andrea forming in May, there more notable storms, Gabrielle made landfall in Alabama as a category three hurricane becoming the first storm to do so since 2004, Imelda cauded heavy flooding across Cuba prior to becoming a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, Karen affected Florida as a category three hurricane as well making landfall on the eastern side of the state, Nestor caused damage to Puerto Rico which was still recovering from Maria two years prior to the storm, Olga turned into a powerful extratropical low brining 3 inches of now across North Carolina, before becoming a subtropical storm over the Great Lakes, bringing lake affect snow to Ohio and other areas.

Tropical Storm Andrea
Main Article:Tropical Storm Andrea (2019) A tropical wave formed in the Carribean and slowly progressed towards Cuba becoming the first tropical depression on May 15th, striking the western tip Cuba as it crossed into the Gulf of Mexico, the depression was upgraded to a tropical storm and was named Andrea, Andrea would fail to gain any real organization, making landfall near Cedar Key, Andrea would quickly weaken as it ravenged the inland area of the East Coast, dissipating on May 21st as a tropical depression and despering into a low pressure area, Andrea would go on to drop heavy rain fall in Florida killing 4 people after a house smashed on a house with another 2 injured, an additional person died after they failed to escape quickly rising flood waters, despite 5 fatalities Andrea did 110 million dollars in damages.

Tropical Storm Barry
A trough of low pressure formed off of Georgia, and moved south becoming the second depression of the season, the depression slowly moving in a easternly motion becoming tropical storm Barry, Barry would slowly curve into a westerly motion, as it did so the storm would get dangerously close to the United States, before curving back narrowly avoiding landfall, after that Barry would weaken into a tropical depression and dissipate near the Mid-Atlantic states as became an open trough of low pressure on the 2th, Barry caused flash flooding in North Carolina killing 2 and only minimal damage was reported.

Hurricane Chantal
Main Article:Hurricane Chantal (2019) A tropical wave formed in the open Atlantic and moved towards the Lesser Antilles, as the wave did so it organized in favorable conditions and was upgraded to the 3rd tropical depression the 6th, after more organization the depression was named Chantal as it became a tropical storm, Chantal would become a hurricane after microwave imagery found an eye in the storm followed by hurricane hunter flights into the storm, thus making Chantal the first hurricane of the season, Chantal would pass close to Dominica as a hurricane resulting in 10 fatalities and minimal damage, as it moved towards the Dominican Republic Chantal became a category two hurricane making landfall on the country after peak killing 35 in flood waters and doing quite a moderate amount of damage due to landslides and flooding, Chantal would weaken as it passed by the Bahamas staying well east of the United States, Chantal would regain category two status but failed to reach its peak central pressure just leveling out at 977 millibars the second time around, after that Chantal started weakening as it enterd hostile conditions weakening to a tropical storm and turning extratropical before making landfall on Nova Socita, the extratropical remnants were absorbed by a much more power low on July 21, during its life span Chantal did 135 million dollars in damages and killed 45 in Dominca and the Dominican Republic making it a fairly notable storm.