2018-19 Eastern Ocean Season (Collab with GaryKJR)

Thanks to GaryKJR for the Hurricane SimsThe 2018-19 Eastern Ocean season is an ongoing event in the formation of tropical cyclones in the Eastern Ocean. So far, the season has been above-average. The official season begins on September 1st and ends on March 31st. 2018-19 is the first season to hold a July storm since 1986-87.

Isabella
...Isabella is now a Catgeory 2...threatening a landfall...

12 hrs - 100 mph

24 hrs - 115 mph

36 hrs - 120 mph (landfall)

48 hrs - 75 mph

60 hrs - 40 mph

72 hrs - 25 mph (dissipated)

Jahi
 ...Jahi slowly intensifying...

12 hrs - 45 mph

24 hrs - 25 mph (dissipated)

Kayla
...Kayla could be the third major hurricane of the season...

12 hrs - 60 mph

24 hrs - 80 mph

36 hrs - 90 mph

48 hrs - 110 mph

60 hrs - 125 mph

72 hrs - 120 mph

Mid-Season Predictions
After realizing how active this season was, many weather centers decided to make new predictions.

Alexis
On July 13th, the FCC started to track an area of low pressure near the western parts of the Eastern Ocean. This low acquired some tropical characteristics, and on July 16th, the low developed into the first tropical depresion of the season. The depression stayed at that intensity until July 17th, when it was upgraded to a tropical storm and assigned the name Alexis, the first name in the list. Alexis moved westward through the Western Gulf as it steadily intensified within an environment of high sea surface temperatures, low wind shear, and favorable upper-level divergence. On July 20th, Alexis made landfall as a Category 1, and quickly weakened from there as it accelerated northward. Two days later, Alexis degenerated into a remnant low.

Two
Tropical Depression Two was an unusually long-lasting TD. Two would have been stronger if it was farther north; it was too close to the equator.

Zeb-Kayla
Crossed over from MC's Basin.

Season Names
The list shown below is the naming list for the 2018-19 Eastern Ocean season. Names from this list that were assigned to particularly damaging and/or destructive storms will be retired and a new name will be chosen to replace them after the season has ended. Tropical depressions do not receive names; only storms of tropical storm intensity or higher are assigned a name from the list.

The Greek alphabet will be used to name storms that reach tropical storm status or above after the naming list has been exhausted.

Eastern Ocean Scaling
*Note that seasons are measured using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale as of now.