Retired Atlantic Names of the 2020s (John the Addictive)

During the 2020s, 40 tropical cyclone names were retired, the most retired in a decade so far. Collectively, these systems killed 33,500 people directly and caused over $560 billion worth of damage. So far, of those storms whose names have been retired during the decade, Hurricane Lee was the most intense tropical cyclone by pressure and windspeed, with a recordbreaking minimum value of 879 hPa and. The deadliest was Hurricane Alex, with 10,338 deaths. It is the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Mitch of 1998. The costliest of this decade is Hurricane Ophelia, at $131 billion in damage, beating out both Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017.