2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season (Lars - Future Series)

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was a relatively active hurricane season which would be the last in a series of active seasons starting in 2016

Tropical Storm Arthur
On May 19, a large area of disorganized thunderstorms developed south of Cuba. The area of thunderstorms slowly moved west across the Caribbean and slowly organized. By May 22, the system turned northwest and developed into an area of low pressure. The system continued to organize as it approached the Yucatan peninsula and at 12:00 UTC May 24 it developed into Tropical Depression One 50 miles south-southeast of Isla de Cozumel. The nascent depression moved west and made landfall in the Yucatan near Tulum at 18:00 UTC May 24. The depression moved slowly over the Yucatan and it curved northeast by 6:00 UTC May 25. The depression re-emerged over water shortly after 6:00 UTC that day. From there, the depression slowly organized further while assuming its northeast course and at 18:00 UTC May 25 it strengthened into a tropical storm over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where it would receive the name "Arthur". The system continued to move northeast and maintained sheared to the east as it slowly intensified. By 12:00 UTC May 26, the system curved north and then northwest in response to steering currents in the Gulf of Mexico now a 60 mph storm. The system moved north and reached its peak as a 65 mph storm at 0:00 UTC May 27, as it moved 150 miles west of Sarasota, Florida as it dumped rain over Florida. However, wind shear over the northern Gulf of Mexico began to degrade on the system. The system then began to curve northwest by 12:00 UTC May 27 as it approached the Florida panhandle. At 18:00 UTC May 27, the system passed a mere 5 miles off of the coast of the Floridian panhandle and Arthur made its first, and final, landfall six hours later, at 0:00 UTC May 28, Arthur made landfall near Panama City as a 50 mph storm. Over land, Arthur quickly began to weaken and by 18:00 UTC May 28, Arthur fell to tropical depression status and six hours later, at 0:00 UTC May 29, Arthur degenerated into a remnant low over northeastern Mississippi. Its remnants began to curve northeast due to an interaction with a rapidly approaching front from the northwest. By 18:00 UTC May 29, the remnants of Arthur began to merge with the oncoming front and became extratropical. Twelve hours later, at 6:00 UTC May 30, Arthur's extratropical remnants were fully absorbed by the oncoming front.

Tropical Storm Bertha
On June 9, a tropical wave moved off of the coast of Africa and sped across the Atlantic. The wave acquired only minimal convection as it moved across the Atlantic due to unfavourable conditions (dust, low SSTs, and increased wind shear). However, by June 15, the wave entered a more favourable environment a few hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles. Slowly, the system gained organization but lacked a definable center and had a developing circulation. However, the system continued to steadily develop a more definable circulation and at 6:00 UTC June 18, the wave developed into Tropical Depression Two around 400 miles east of Guadeloupe. The system, still in its favourable environment, continued to gather strength and intensified into a tropical storm six hours later, at 12:00 UTC June 18, where it would receive the name "Bertha" located 350 miles east of Guadeloupe. The nascent storm continued to move west towards the Lesser Antilles and slowly continued to gain some strength, but an increase in shear prevented any major strengthening of Bertha. By 12:00 UTC June 19, Bertha began to pass through the Lesser Antilles as a 45 mph storm. Bertha would pass between the islands, avoiding any landfall but dumping torrential amounts of rain onto the islands. Bertha would peak as a 50 mph storm at 0:00 UTC June 20, while exiting the Lesser Antilles very shortly after a shift to the north due to a center relocation. Steady wind shear of around 10-15kt along with the center reformation began to take its toll on Bertha and twelve hours later, at 12:00 UTC June 20, Bertha weakened back to a 45 mph storm while 75 miles northeast of San Juan, in Puerto Rico. Bertha would then reach its latitudinal peak twelve hours later before turning southwest towards Hispaniola. SIx hours later, at 0:00 UTC June 21, Bertha made landfall in the Samana peninsula, in the Dominican Republic still a 45 mph cyclone. Moving over land now, the system's circulation began to weaken and Bertha fell to 40 mph at 6:00 UTC and to depression status six hours later before its circulation dissipated over Hispaniola at 18:00 UTC June 21. Despite Bertha's circulation dissipating its remnant moisture, cloudcover, and energy persisted and moved off of Hispaniola twelve hours later, at 6:00 UTC June 22, where it had already dumped massive amounts of rain. Its remnants would moved southwest before, on June 24, it turned east due to the approaching Hurricane Cristobal. It would then turn north-northeast while situated 100 miles north of the northernmost tip of South America by 12:00 UTC June 25 and was subsequently fully absorbed into Hurricane Cristobal by 18:00 UTC June 26.

Hurricane Cristobal
On June 14, five days after Bertha's wave, another tropical wave moved off of the coast of Africa. This system initially fared even worse than Bertha's wave due to upwelling since it followed Bertha's wave across the Atlantic. Despite maintaining little to no convection as it journeyed across the Atlantic, it began to organize over the central Atlantic 800 miles east of the Lesser Antilles on June 19 and into June 20. This steady development would lead to the development of Tropical Depression Three at 18:00 UTC June 21, 700 miles east of St. Lucia in the Lesser Antilles. Assuming a westwards course, the nascent depression slowly organized further and intensified into a tropical storm twelve hours after formation, at 6:00 UTC June 22, when it would receive the name "Cristobal". The newly-named storm would proceed to move west at a relatively steady pace slowly intensifying along the way. By 18:00 UTC June 24, Cristobal was approaching the Lesser Antilles as a 65 mph storm north of Barbados. Cristobal continued to strengthen as it approached Martinique. Cristobal would make landfall in the northern tip of Martinique at 0:00 UTC June 25 as a 70 mph storm. However, time was running out for Cristobal to strengthen as it quickly approached an area of increased shear (10-15kt). Cristobal quickly passed through Martinique and twelve hours later, at 12:00 UTC June 25, Cristobal intensified into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph. However, Cristobal had now entered the more unfavourable environment and it started to appear less organized due to the wind shear and weakened back to tropical storm status six hours later at 18:00 UTC. Cristobal continued to move west across the eastern Caribbean and entered an even more hostile environment the further west it went. Just 24 hours after peaking, Cristobal had skeletal banding and limited circulation, a measly 45 mph storm southwest of Puerto Rico. Six hours after that, it would absorb the remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha south of Hispaniola as a 40 mph storm. Six hours after that, at 0:00 UTC June 27, Cristobal degenerated into a remnant low as it could not maintain the bare minimum amount of circulation to be classified as a tropical cyclone. Cristobal's remnants would moved northwest and made a landfall in Haiti near the town of Oviedo. Continuing to move northwest, Cristobal's remnants emerged over water from Haiti and made another landfall as a remnant low in Ile de la Gonave. Cristobal's remnants would continue moving northwest and made another landfall as a remnant in Cuba near Rio Seco shortly after 0:00 UTC June 28. After the landfall, Cristobal's remnants began to assume a more northwards track as well as weakening to depression-force winds. By 18:00 UTC that day, the remnants of Cristobal, just a swirl of low level clouds with a minimal circulation, began to pass through the eastern Bahamas. It would quickly moved north-northwest through the Bahamas and left by 0:00 UTC June 30. After moving through the Bahamas, luckily for Cristobal, it entered a more conducive environment for potential recyclogenesis. These favourable conditions, along with a slow in Cristobal's forward speed, allowed Cristobal to regenerate into a tropical depression at 0:00 UTC July 1, located some 200 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida. Due to the recent collapse in steering currents the newly-reformed depression began to meander east-northeast as a depression. Twelve hours after reforming, at 12:00 UTC July 1, the reformed Cristobal re-strengthened back into a tropical storm. Also at this time, it turned south curving around back north. Cristobal would proceed with the u-turn around north as it slowly strengthened over the ocean. By 12:00 UTC July 3, Cristobal had strengthened to a 60 mph storm and moved northwest towards the Outer Banks. Cristobal made landfall in the Outer Banks at 0:00 UTC July 4 as a 70 mph tropical storm and its cloudcover began to shift north as it moved rapidly northwest towards an oncoming front. Six hours later, it would pass very close to Virginia Beach, in Virginia, while moving northwest at around 16 mph as a 60 mph storm. Cristobal continued racing northwest and began extratropical transition shortly after 6:00 UTC July 4, as it was passing by Virginia Beach. Cristobal would turn fully extratropical at 18:00 UTC July 4, located over northern Virginia. Its extratropical remnants continued to move northwest and were fully absorbed into the front shortly after 6:00 UTC July 5, located over far eastern Lake Erie at the time of absorption.

Subtropical Storm Dolly
An extratropical cyclone formed over the Central Atlantic on July 31. The cyclone moved quickly northeast where by August 2 it began to make a slow extratropical loop and bean to acquire subtropical characteristics. THe extratropical cyclone would finish its loop late on August 3 and began to move northeast while undergoing subtropical transition. By 12:00 UTC August 4, the extratropical cyclone transitioned into a subtropical storm, receiving the name "Dolly" 375 miles southwest of Flores Island in the Azores. Dolly, forming with winds of 50 mph, quickly intensified as it raced northeast towards the Azores. Dolly would peak as it made landfalls in Pico, Sao Jorge, and Terceira islands shortly after 0:00 UTC August 5. By 6:00 UTC, though, Dolly began to interact with a nearby front and began to undergo extratropical transition. Dolly continued to race northeast and became fully extratropical by 18:00 UTC August 5. Its extratropical remnants continued racing northeast before being absorbed by the oncoming front six hours later, at 0:00 UTC August 6.

Tropical Storm Edouard
An area of low pressure developed south of Hispaniola on August 3. This area of low pressure, initially devoid of thunderstorms moved west-southwest 700 miles east of Nicaragua. By August 5, the low pressure area, now south of Jamaica, turned south-southwest as a trough passed to its north. By August 6, the area, now just north of Panama, turned northeast and in a more favourable environment, began to organize further. By late August 7, the system, 175 miles north of Panama, began to make an anti-cyclonic loop back around west. The system was designated Potential Tropical Cyclone Five at 0:00 UTC September, as it was continuing its anti-cyclonic loop back west. By 18:00 UTC August 8, the low pressure area developed into Tropical Depression Five 150 miles northwest of Cartagena, Columbia. The depression quickly strengthened in the favourable environment and strengthened into a tropical storm by 0:00 UTC August 9, where it would receive the name "Edouard". Edouard moved quickly west and slowly strengthened as it moved west towards the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border. Edouard made landfall in the extreme northern portion of the Costa Rican border with Nicaragua at 6:00 UTC August 10 at peak intensity. Edouard quickly weakened over Costa Rica and Honduras falling to minimum tropical storm status six hours later. At 18:00 UTC Edouard crossed into the Eastern Pacific basin and weakened to a tropical depression.

Hurricane Fay
A tropical wave moved off of the coast of Africa on August 4. The wave steadily moved across the Atlantic while not really developing further. The wave moved north of the Lesser Antilles by August 9. By August 10, however, the wave entered a far more favourable environment and, while somewhat organized, it began to develop a more defined circulation. The system rapidly organized and by 0:00 UTC August 11, the wave developed into Tropical Depression Six 150 miles north of Hispaniola. The nascent depression moved quickly northwest and intensified into a tropical storm 12 hours later, at 12:00 UTC, 75 miles north of the Turks and Caicos Islands, receiving the name "Fay". Tropical Storm Fay continued moving west-northwest as it steadily strengthened. Fay made landfall in Andros Island at 18:00 UTC August 12 as a 65 mph storm. Land interaction with the Bahamas and Florida prevented any continued major intensification. Fay would then make landfall in Miami at 6:00 UTC August 13 as a 70 mph tropical storm. The system steadily weakened as it quickly raced across Florida. Six hours later, it had weakened to 50 mph and re-emerged over the Gulf of Mexico. And by 6:00 UTC August 14, Fay had strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane over the very favourable environment of the Gulf of Mexico. The storm quickly strengthened as it moved northwest and gradually curving north and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane by 18:00 UTC that day. fay continued to intensify as it moved towards Louisiana and intensified into the season's first major hurricane by 12:00 UTC August 15. Fay started to rapidly intensify as it neared Louisiana, and Fay became a Category 4 hurricane by 0:00 UTC August 16. Six hours later, Fay made landfall at peak intensity as a catastrophic 140 mph Category 4 hurricane near Big Josephine Island at 6:00 UTC August 16. Fay quickly weakened after making landfall and fell to Category 3 status six hours later, shortly before its eye collapsed. It then fell to Category 1 status by 18:00 UTC August 16. By 0:00 UTC August 17, Fay fell to a tropical storm over northeastern Louisiana. Twelve hours later, at 12:00 UTC, Fay fell to tropical depression status over southeastern Arkansas. By then, Fay curved northeast in response to an oncoming trough. By 0:00 UTC August 18, Fay moved over Mississippi and by 6:00 UTC, Fay degenerated into a remnant low over Tennessee. Fay's remnants moved east across the US and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone by 12:00 UTC August 19 over central Virginia. When it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, the extratropical remnants moved northeast and emerged over the open Atlantic by 0:00 UTC August 20 as it emerged off of the coast of New Jersey. Throughout August 20, Fay's extratropical remnants passed by Long Island and Cape Cod before dissipating over the Atlantic by 0:00 UTC August 21.

Tropical Storm Gonzalo
On August 14, an area of disturbed weather developed over the western Caribbean Sea and moved west. By August 16, the disturbance moved over the Yucatan and moved over the Bay of Campeche by August 17. The system steadily west and began to organize as it developed over the far eastern Bay of Campeche. By 18:00 UTC August 18, the disturbance developed into Tropical Depression Seven over the eastern Bay of Campeche. Six hours later, the nascent depression intensified into a tropical storm, receiving the name "Gonzalo". The storm continued moving west towards Mexico and quickly strengthened. Eighteen hours after becoming a tropical storm, at 18:00 UTC August 19, the system made landfall near Tuxpan, Mexico as a 70 mph tropical storm, despite not being as organized as a typical storm of that strength. Over land and moving northwest in response to Tropical Storm Hanna to its northeast, the system rapidly weakened over Mexico and fell to tropical depression status twelve hours later, at 6:00 UTC August 20. Now Tropical Depression Gonzalo continued moving northwest over the mountainous terrain of Mexico and fully dissipated over Mexico before 18:00 UTC.

Tropical Storm Hanna
On August 14, the same area of low pressure which led to the development of Tropical Storm Gonzalo split into a northern and southern section. The northern section quickly moved north between the Yucatan and Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico. After entering the Gulf of Mexico, the area of low pressure, which had a definable center by this phase bean to interact with a trough to its northwest. It would continue to move north as it approached the Florida panhandle and steadily organized. And by 12:00 UTC August 19, the area of low pressure organized into Subtropical Depression Eight 100 miles south-southeast of Panama City, Florida. As a subtropical depression it moved northeast at a modest pace and made landfall near Apalachicola, in the Floridian panhandle at 0:00 UTC August 20. Upon making landfall, it turned southwest due to its interaction with the trough now to its north. By 12:00 UTC August 20, it moved back off of Florida. The subtropical depression moved southwest and strengthened into a subtropical storm at 0:00 UTC August 21, located 100 miles southeast of Pensacola, when it would receive the name "Hanna". A very disorganized system, the system saw little strengthening as it steadily gained tropical characteristics as it separated from the trough. By 12:00 UTC August 21, Hanna transitioned into a fully tropical storm 130 miles south of Mobile, Alabama. By this time, the system curved north to northeast as an oncoming front from the northwest approached the tropical storm. Six hours later, at 18:00 UTC, Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall near Empire, Louisiana. Over the next twelve hours, Hanna moved past New Orleans as it turned northeast. At 12:00 UTC August 22, as Hanna moved northeast, it weakened to a tropical depression. After that, the front caught up to Hanna and Hanna began to undergo extratropical transition. Hanna transitioned into an extratropical cyclone at 0:00 UTC August 23 over Alabama. Its extratropical remnants continued to move northeast and dissipated at 12:00 UTC August 23 over far northern Alabama.

Hurricane Isaias
An area of thunderstorms developed over the MDR on August 27. The area of thunderstorms gradually developed as it moved west and began to slowly curve north. The system steadily organized and developed into Tropical Depression Nine at 0:00 UTC September 1 700 miles east of Trinidad and Tobago. Moving north-northwest, Isaias quickly strengthened into a tropical storm six hours later and received the name "Isaias". Isaias steadily strengthened as it moved north-northwest east of the Leeward Islands. By 0:00 UTC September 3, Isaias strengthened into the third hurricane of the season as it curved west-northwest. Twelve hours later, Isaias intensified into a Category 2 hurricane now moving west-northwest. 18 hours later, at 6:00 UTC September 4, Isaias intensified further into a Category 3 hurricane, the third major hurricane of the season, 120 miles northeast of St. Kitts and Nevis. Isaias steadily continued to intensify and peaked 18 hours later, at 0:00 UTC September 5, as a 120 mph storm 100 miles north-northeast of Anguilla. Isaias then moved northwest and encountered cooler waters and fell back to Category 2 hurricane at 18:00 UTC that day. Moving further north into cooler waters, Isaias fell further to Category 1 hurricane by 12:00 UTC September 6 as its eye began to become more ragged. Shortly before 6:00 UTC September 7, Isaias's eye collapsed and it fell to tropical storm status. Shortly afterwards, Isaias's entered the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream and re-intensified back to Category 1 status by 18:00 UTC that day. Twelve hours later, at 6:00 UTC September 8, Isaias regained Category 2 status 200 miles southwest of Bermuda. Twelve hours later, Isaias regained Category 3 status 200 miles west-southwest of Bermuda. Six hours later, at 0:00 UTC September 9, Isaias would reach its secondary peak of 115 mph and 964 mb 200 miles west-northwest of Bermuda. By this time, Isaias began to curve north and then east around Bermuda due to the Gulf Stream. By 18:00 UTC September 9, Isaias fell down back to Category 2 status. Six hours later, Isaias began to start extratropical transition. By 6:00 UTC September 10, Isaias fell to Category 1 status as it continued undergoing extratropical transition. It would complete its transition at 18:00 UTC September 10. After turning extratropical, its remnants would move east and fell to tropical storm strength on September 11 and returned back to hurricane force winds on September 14 before falling back, again, to tropical storm strength on September 15. Isaias's extratropical remnants would dissipate by 12:00 UTC September 16 300 miles west of Ireland.

Hurricane Josephine
A tropical wave moved off of the coast of Africa on August 30. This wave moved quickly across the Atlantic, though it was organized, it lacked a definable center. Josephine quickly moved west and on September 3, it started to curve northwest due to a Fujiwhara interaction with Isaias to its northwest. By late September 4, the system began to quickly definable center as it was soon to cross the Lesser Antilles. By 6:00 UTC, the wave crossed the Lesser Antilles via Dominica and Martinique. Six hours later, at 12:00 UTC September 5, the wave developed into Tropical Depression Ten over the far eastern Caribbean Sea, around 50 miles southwest of Guadeloupe. Six hours later, despite wind shear from Isaias's outflow, Tropical Depression Ten intensified into a tropical storm, receiving the name "Josephine" southeast of Puerto Rico. As Isaias began to move away to its north, Josephine continued on its westward course and began to slowly strengthen as it moved south of Puerto Rico. At 0:00 UTC September 7, Josephine intensified into a hurricane 100 miles south of Hispaniola. Six hours later, Josephine peaked at 80 mph as it moved west close to Hispaniola. This land interaction, however, would lead to Josephine's nascent eye being more ragged and eventually collapsing, signifying Josephine's degradation to tropical storm status as it moved within 15 miles of the western tip of Hispaniola at 18:00 UTC that day. Land interaction, however, caused Josephine to steadily weaken and Josephine would make landfall near Buey Arriba, Cuba at 65 mph at 6:00 UTC September 8. Josephine quickly re-emerged and made another landfall near Santa Cruz del Sur, in Cuba at around 14:45 UTC at 50 mph. Josephine would make its third, and final, consecutive landfall near El Toro, Cuba at 18:00 UTC September 8 as a 40 mph storm. Six hours later, as Josephine moved west over Cuba, Josephine weakened to a tropical depression. At 6:00 UTC September 9, near Havana, Josephine degenerated into a remnant row. Shortly thereafter, the remnants of Josephine moved off of Cuba and Josephine's remnants began to move from northwest to west. On September 10, the remnants moved close to the Florida Keys. By September 11, Josephine's remnants began to steadily re-organize over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And by 12:00 UTC September 12, the remnants regenerated into a tropical depression over the western Gulf of Mexico. The regenerated Josephine re-intensified back into a tropical storm at 0:00 UTC September 13. Josephine quickly moved northwest and slowly intensified and made landfall at 0:00 UTC September 14 near Freeport, Texas as a 60 mph tropical storm. After landfall, Josephine quickly weakened and fell to tropical depression status by 12:00 UTC September 14, 50 miles northeast of Austin, Texas, and fully dissipated by 18:00 UTC that day.

Hurricane Kyle
A tropical wave moved off of the coast of Africa on September 4, the wave moved quickly west as it maintained a strong circulation but was very disorganized. By September 6, the wave began to steadily organize 600 miles west of the Cabo Verde archipelago. It would continue to organize and at 12:00 UTC September 7, it developed into Tropical Depression Eleven 800 miles west of Cabo Verde. The nascent depression steadily organized further and six hours later, the depression intensified into a tropical storm, receiving the name "Kyle". The nascent tropical storm moved west-northwest and slowly began to intensify over the warm waters of the MDR in September.Kyle approached hurricane intensity early on September 9 but began to weaken as wind shear made Kyle look disheveled. By early September 10, Kyle began to restrengthen again and by 12:00 UTC that day, Kyle intensified into a Category 1 hurricane 650 miles east of Antigua and Barbuda. Kyle, now the fifth hurricane of the season, continued to move west-northwest and steadily intensified and by 12:00 UTC September 11, Kyle intensified into a Category 2 hurricane as it curved on a more westward course. Continuing to steadily intensify as it moved north of the Leeward Islands. At 18:00 UTC September 12, Kyle intensified into a Category 3, the third major hurricane of the season, 150 miles northeast of Barbuda. Kyle would only hold onto minimal Category 3 status for 24 hours and at 18:00 UTC September 13, cooler waters left from Isaias caused Kyle to weaken to Category 2 status as it moved northwest. Kyle continued to weaken as its eye became more ragged and cloud-filled and by 12:00 UTC September 14, Kyle fell to Category 1 status. Shortly thereafter, Kyle began to move over warmer waters and by 6:00 UTC the following day, Kyle re-intensified into a Category 2 hurricane as it curved westwards. Kyle continued to slowly intensify as it approached a more favourable environment and by 18:00 UTC September 16, Kyle regained major hurricane status. Entering the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream, Kyle began to quickly strengthen as it move northwest towards the Carolinas and by 12:00 UTC September 17, Kyle intensified into a Category 4 hurricane. Kyle continued to intensify and peaked at 6:00 UTC September 18 as a 150 mph storm. As it approached the Carolinas, however, it began to weaken as its eye became more ragged and fell to 145 mph by 18:00 UTC that day. Kyle made landfall in the Outer Banks, in North Carolina, as a 140 mph Category 4 hurricane at 0:00 UTC September 19. Immediately after making landfall, Kyle began to sharply turn northeast in response to a front to its northwest. Kyle re-emerged over the Atlantic from the Carolinas shortly after 6:00 UTC that day and by 12:00 UTC, Kyle weakened to Category 3 status. Twelve hours after that, at 0:00 UTC September 20, Kyle fell to Category 2 status and began to start extratropical transition. Racing northeast 100 miles south of Cape Cod and with extratropical transition in full swing, Kyle fell further to Category 1 status. Kyle would complete its extratropical transition at 0:00 UTC September 21, 330 miles southwest of Halifax, in Nova Scotia. Kyle's extratropical remnants would continue east-northeast as it passed south of Nova Scotia. By 0:00 UTC September 22, Kyle's remnants fell below hurricane-force and moved northeast. By 12:00 UTC that day, Kyle's remnants moved east of Newfoundland and moved east-northeast again. Throughout the 23rd and the 24th of September, Kyle's remnants would pass 800 miles south of Greenland while still weakening. By 6:00 UTC September 24, Kyle's remains would fall to depression-force winds and fully dissipate six hours later southwest of Iceland 800 miles southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.

Hurricane Laura
On September 13, an area of disorganized thunderstorms developed north of Panama. This region of thunderstorms would move steadily north while slowly organizing under the favourable conditions the western Caribbean held. This development and the formation of a definable center led to the formation of a tropical storm at 6:00 UTC September 16, located 50 miles northeast of Iralaya, on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras. The storm would receive the name "Laura" on formation. The nascent storm would move quickly north at around 11 mph in the Western Caribbean Sea and would steadily strengthen as it did so. By 0:00 UTC September 18, Tropical Storm Laura passed between the Yucatan peninsula and Cuba as a 70 mph tropical storm. Six hours later, Laura would intensify into a bare minimum Category 1 hurricane. Interaction with a large area of low pressure moving east off of the coast of Florida would pull Laura north and by 18:00 UTC, as the low moved away and steering currents collapsed in the Gulf of Mexico, Laura began to stall and by 0:00 UTC September 19 Laura weakened back into a tropical storm due to upwelling of cooler waters. By 18:00 UTC September 19, however, Laura began to move on a definitively northwest path as it curved towards Louisiana. By 0:00 UTC September 20, Laura restrengthened back into a Category 1 hurricane as it developed a more defined eye again. As Laura began to curve northwards on the 20th, it began to steadily intensify. At 0:00 UTC September 21, Laura strengthened into peak intensity as a Category 2 hurricane and made landfall west of Golden Meadow, Louisiana. With a trough to its north, Laura moved northeast and passed over New Orleans at 12:00 UTC, having just weakened back into Category 1 status. In response to the trough, Laura promptly moved north into Louisiana and by 0:00 UTC September 22, Laura, as a 75 mph Category 1 hurricane, moved into Mississippi. However, Laura broke away from the trough, turning sharply south, though some of the system's cloudcover merged with the trough and separated from the cyclone. This disruption in the system's appear caused Laura to fall back to tropical storm status by 6:00 UTC that day. Shortly afterwards, Laura moved back over the Gulf of Mexico as a 65 mph tropical storm, slowly losing tropical characteristics. Moving eastwards and slowly weakening due to upwelling, Laura then made a turn west-southwest by 0:00 UTC September 23 in response to a Fujiwhara Interaction with Tropical Depression Fourteen located over the Bahamas. Laura then approached the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana by 12:00 UTC but began to make a cyclonic loop as steering currents collapsed in the far northern Gulf of Mexico. This upwelling and interaction with a trough to its north would cause Laura to steadily lose its tropical characteristics. By 0:00 UTC September 24, Laura completed its cyclonic loop and moved back towards the Mississippi River Delta as it rapidly lost its tropical characteristics and its warm core. Laura would fully lose its warm core at 12:00 UTC September 24, this along with interaction with a trough now to its northeast and the development of an asymmetric wind field, marked its transition into a subtropical storm with winds of 45 mph as it made landfall near Bohemia, Louisiana. After making landfall, Subtropical Storm Laura moved east of New Orleans, passing by it for a second time in 3 days. The Brown Ocean Effect allowed for Laura to maintain its status of subtropical storm as it moved into southern and central Mississippi and by 12:00 UTC September 25, with a shrinking wind field still asymmetric, the subtropical storm began to move east-northeast in response to an oncoming front to its west. Six hours later, the storm fell to subtropical depression status over northern Mississippi. Clinging onto subtropical status the subtropical depression moved over Alabama late on September 26 and moved east. Moving east into Tennessee by 18:00 UTC September 27, and as it began to lose its circulation, Laura also began to interact with the front rapidly approaching it. Laura would degenerate into a remnant low over Tennessee shortly after entering it at 0:00 UTC September 28. Laura's remnants would turn extratropical by 18:00 UTC, located over central North Carolina and turning east. Laura would emerge over the western Atlantic off of North Carolina at 0:00 UTC September 30. Its remnants then curved northwest slowly and by 0:00 UTC October 1, its extratropical remnants re-intensified into tropical storm strength located 150 miles south of Long Island, in New York. The extratropical remnants would move back west and approached New Jersey before beginning to curve northeast again as it rapidly regained subtropical characteristics. This development of subtropical characteristics would lead to Laura's regeneration as a subtropical storm at 6:00 UTC October 2 located 50 miles east of Brick, New Jersey. The newly regenerated Laura would quickly weaken as a result of subtropical transition weakening from its intensity at formation of 65 mph to 50 mph 12 hours later. Laura would move east-northeast parallel to Long Island throughout the remainder of October 2. By 0:00 UTC October 3, Laura began to move northeast and Laura also began to slowly re-intensify again. By 12:00 UTC October 3, Subtropical Storm Laura made landfall in Cape Cod near new Bedford at 60 mph. After quickly crossing Cape Cod, Laura continued to move northeast parallel to the East Coast. Cooler waters north of Massachusetts also caused Laura to weaken again as it approached Maine. Turning extratropical due to a temperature gradient as it approached Maine, Laura would make landfall in Maine as a subtropical storm with winds of 40 mph at 12:00 UTC October 4 near Brooksville very shortly after landfalls in Vinelhaven and North Haven islands. Six hours after landfall, a very disorganized Laura undergoing extratropical transition weakened to a subtropical depression at 18:00 UTC. Finally, Laura would turn completely extratropical at 0:00 UTC October 5 30 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine. Laura's extratropical remnants would proceed to move northeast into Canada later that day and actually strengthened back into tropical storm force winds over New Brunswick. By 0:00 UTC October 6, Laura's extratropical remnants emerged over the Gulf of St. Lawrence north of Prince Edward Island moving east. Laura's extratropical remnants would be absorbed by a larger system 50 miles southeast of Anticosti Island shortly after 12:00 UTC October 6.

Hurricane Marco
On September 12, a tropical wave moved off of the coast of Africa and passed through Cabo Verde. The wave slowly organized as it moved west of Cabo Verde. Already having a definable center, though disheveled and disorganized, the wave slowly developed and by 12:00 UTC September 16, the wave developed into Tropical Depression Thirteen 400 miles west of Cabo Verde. Under a not very favourable environment the disorganized depression continued to move west and strengthened from 30 mph to 35 mph. However, by 12:00 UTC September 17, it weakened back to 30 mph. By September 18, Tropical Depression Thirteen began to strengthen in a more favourable environment of warmer SSTs. At 18:00 UTC September 18, more than 2 days after forming, the depression intensified into a tropical storm, receiving the name "Marco". This more favourable environment only allowed Marco to peak at 40 mph and by 18:00 UTC September 19, it fell back down to tropical depression status, still holding on a generally westward course. Throughout September 20, Tropical Depression Marco began to curve northwest again and by 0:00 UTC September 20, Marco regained tropical storm status. However, despite this, dry air intrusion finally took its toll and the system and at 12:00 UTC that day, Marco degenerated into a remnant low. Its remains would move northwest and by 6:00 UTC September 23, it turned northeast due to a change in sea currents. Its remains would then move northeast and on September 25, they curved north. By September 26, its remnants began to stall as it entered a more favourable environment again. This environment allowed Marco to regenerate at 6:00 UTC September 27, as a tropical depression 700 miles southwest of the Azores. Twelve hours after reforming, at 18:00 UTC, Marco re-attained tropical storm status and accelerated northeast. Marco then steadily intensified in a more favourable environment and attained hurricane status at 18:00 UTC September 29. Marco would steadily continue to intensify and by 0:00 UTC October 1 it strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it continued to move northeast towards the Azores. Finally, by 0:00 UTC October 2, Marco reached its peak intensity attaining major hurricane status as a bare minimum Category 3. Marco would hold its intensity as it passed just to the north of the Azores but it fell back to Category 2 status by 18:00 UTC October 2. Moving into cooler waters, Marco began to continue to weaken further and by 12:00 UTC October 3, Marco fell further to Category 1 status. By 0:00 UTC October 4, Marco began to undergo extratropical transition and by 18:00 UTC that day, Marco transitioned into a fully extratropical cyclone. Marco's extratropical remnants curved north-northeast by 12:00 UTC the following day. Marco's remnants would move towards the British Isles and by 18:00 UTC October 7, Marco's remnants move east again and by 0:00 UTC October 9, Marco would pass north of Ireland and by 6:00 UTC Marco's remains hit Ireland with depression-force winds and by 12:00 UTC they hit the United Kingdom. Marco's remains would fully dissipate before 18:00 UTC October 9.