2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season (zal0phus)

The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season was the final season in the most recent positive epoch of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and one of the most active and devastating hurricane seasons of all time. In a feat surpassing the 2023 season, the 2024 hurricane season featured three Category 5 hurricanes with a central pressure below 900 mbar; it is also the only hurricane season to feature two Category 5 hurricanes with a pressure below 890 mbar. The season's 21 cyclones, 13 hurricanes, and 9 major hurricanes inflicted catastrophic damage across the already-battered Atlantic basin, although to a much lesser extent than those of the previous year.

Of these storms, the most powerful and destructive by far were Gordon and Nadine. Bearing more resemblance to a West Pacific supertyphoon than an Atlantic hurricane, Gordon embarked on a slow and extremely destructive journey west across the tropical Atlantic, devastating both the Lesser and Greater Antilles as well as the Bahamas and North Carolina; it became the strongest hurricane on record to exist in the open Atlantic. Nadine became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico and the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane recorded. Tripling its wind speeds in less than a day, it weakened dramatically before making landfall near Corpus Christi. Other notable hurricanes include Chris, a low-end Category 4 that devastated Cuba, Ernesto, a Category 4 which devastated communities near Lake Okeechobee, Isaac, a compact Category 5 that made landfall in a sparsely populated region of Texas, and Tony, an anomalous December Category 4 that caused blizzards in the Northeast.