2020 Pacific hurricane season (Blackford)

the 2020 Pacific hurricane season is the most active Pacific hurricane season on record, featuring 29 named storms, 18 hurricanes and 13 major hurricanes.

The most notable storm of the year was Hurricane Julio, a powerful Category 5 hurricane that made the strongest tropical cyclone landfall worldwide, tied with Typhoon Haiyan of 2016 and several others.

This season also saw a record-breaking 6 Category 5 hurricanes, of which 4 peaked with winds of over 180 mph (Hernan, Julio, Nobert, and Ekeka). The season also ended on January 11, 2021, when Hurricane Beta diminished, a record for the eastern Pacific.

Tropical Storm Amanda
See article here: Tropical Storm Amanda (Blackford) (2020)On January 14, a area of disturbed subtropical showers and thunderstorms developed just east of 140°W, the system formed at a unusually far north latitude, by January 17, the NHC had made note that the system had developed a strong centralized center of rotation, and named it Subtropical Depression One.

The storm would meander as a subtropical depression until January 20, when it was named Subtropical Storm Amanda. It crossed into the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility early on January 21, and became a tropical storm on January 22.

The storm would peak early on January 23 with a pressure of 998 mbar and winds of 50 mph, before interacting with a low pressure system. It rapidly accelerated at speeds as high as 75-80 mph north as it finally hit Alaska on January 24 as a minimal tropical storm, the first on record to hit the state, before it finally diminished on January 25.

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