2013-14 North Pole hurricane season

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''' In celebration of Christmas, all of the names in this season are holiday-themed. This season also uses the names of all of Santa's reindeer expect for Comet, Dancer, and Donder. '''

The 2013-14 North Pole hurricane season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. It officially began on November 15 and ended on April 30, dates of which conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the North Pole/Arctic basin. The 2013-14 season was very active, with 20 depressions developing near the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean. 18 of these depressions became named storms, 12 became hurricanes, and 4 were strong enough to be classified as a major hurricane (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale).

The first storm of the season formed on November 23 and the last storm dissipated on April 18. The strongest storm of the season, Grinch, reached Category 5 intensity (175 mph and 902 mbar). Santa's Workshop took a direct hit from 7 of the storms this season: Blitzen, Cupid, Dasher, Grinch, Kwanzaa, Mistletoe, and Prancer. The workshop was also slightly affected from Hurricane Nicholas and Tropical Storm Rudolph as well. Dasher was the most destructive storm of the season, wrecking havoc all around Santa's Workshop when it struck as a Category 4, but since it struck on Christmas Eve when Santa was riding on his sleigh with his reindeer all around the world, no deaths occurred. However, once Santa came back to his workshop after Christmas Eve, he was in total shock of all the devastation that Dasher caused. The deadliest storm of the season was Grinch, which directly struck the North Pole and the central of Santa's Workshop, causing the deaths of 275 of Santa's helpers and lots of damage (but slightly less than Dasher's damage total). Due to Grinch and many of the other storms this season, many kids were worried that they wouldn't get any presents next Christmas and thought that the hurricanes would completely destroy Santa's Workshop. Luckily this wasn't the case, as Santa's Workshop survived the hurricane season and Santa's helpers were still able to build toys and other things during the summer and fall after this hurricane season.

November
Only 1 storm, Advent, existed in the month. That storm didn't affect land.

December
A total of 5 storms formed in this month: TD 2, Blitzen, Cupid, Dasher, and Elf. TD 2 and Tropical Storm Elf didn't affect anyone, and Hurricane Blitzen (C2), Hurricane Cupid (C1), and Hurricane Dasher (C4) all affected Santa's workshop. Dasher became the most destructive of the season but didn't cause any deaths, impacting Santa's Workshop while Santa and all of his crew were away on Christmas Eve.

January
Four storms formed in January: Hurricane Frosty (C2), Hurricane Grinch (C5), Hurricane Holiday (C1), and Tropical Storm Jesus. Grinch was the only storm in this month to affect Santa's workshop, and it was also the strongest and the 2nd more destructive of the season when it impacted the workshop at C4 intensity. Grinch peaked in intensity after impacting the workshop, and later went out of basin to impact Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya.

February
In February, another 4 storms formed: Hurricane Kwanzaa (C3), Hurricane Lights (C1), Hurricane Mistletoe (C2), and Hurricane Nicholas (C3). Kwanzaa and Mistletoe directly impacted Santa's Workshop, while Nicholas caused some slight affects to the workshop. Kwanzaa, Lights, and Nicholas later went out of basin to impact other unpopulated landmasses in the Arctic Ocean.

March
March had 4 storms exist in the month, and 3 storms forming: Tropical Storm Ornament, Hurricane Prancer (C1), and Tropical Depression Seventeen (Nicholas crossed over to March from February). The only storm to affect Santa's Workshop during March was Prancer. The other storms didn't affect land at all.

April
Finally, in April, 2 storms formed: Tropical Storm Rudolph and Hurricane Santa (C1). Rudolph formed on the first day of the month (April Fool's Day) and slightly affected Santa's Workshop, while Santa didn't affect land before going out of basin to affect Franz Josef Land. Santa dissipated on April 18, ending the season.

Overall, this was a very destructive and active season.

Hurricane Holiday
The I name has been skipped due to lack of holiday names starting with "I"

Storm names
The following names were used to name tropical cyclones this year. Unused names are marked in.

Season effects
This is a table of the storms and their effects in the 2013-14 North Pole hurricane season. This table includes the storm's names, duration, peak intensity, areas affected, damages, and death totals. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave or a low. All of the damage figures are in 2014 USD (the listed damage figure is in millions).