2020-21 South Atlantic Cyclone Season (CycloneNkechinyer)

The 2020-21 South Atlantic Cyclone Season was the Second ever official South Atlantic Cyclone season. This season, like 2019, was also monitored by the Brazil Meteorological Center.

This season was a record breaking season and the first season to ever extend into the Arabic Alphabet, with 15 Depressions, 12 Named Storms, 5 Cyclones and 2 Major Cyclones. This season also featured the first ever Category 5 Cyclone recorded in the South Atlantic Ocean.The season kicked off before the official start to season of October 31, with Cyclone Feliciano becoming the strongest cyclone to ever occur in the month of October in the South Atlantic Ocean basin. November was very quiet but things picked up in Earl December with Tropical Storm Osvaldo, and shortly after, Tropical Depression Four and Cyclone Opal, which became the first ever recorded Category 5 Cyclone in the South Atlantic Ocean, and broke the previous records for strongest cyclone recorded in the South Atlantic Ocean by Cyclone Simba and Cyclone Vilma.

Entering the New Year, everything is quiet, even the ocean. The month of January is mostly Tropical Storms, but Major Cyclone Dalia does form at the end of the month, but does not become a Cyclone until Early November. No Storms form during February, with Dalia lasting most of the Month. Everyone begins to think the season is over as they head into early March, but everyone was proven wrong in Mid-March when both Tropical Depression Eleven and Hurricane Larrie formed on the same day, the first recorded occurrence of this in the South Atlantic Ocean. People again then thought the season would be over again, but the basin surprised everyone when Tropical Storm Serena, Tropical Storm Alif, and Cyclone Ba formed, making it the first time that the overflow list of the Arabic Alphabet was used in a South Atlantic Hurricane Season.