2018 Roy Kingdom Hurricane Season

The 2018 Roy Kingdom hurricane season is an upcoming event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones in the kingdom. The season will officially begin in June 1, 2018, and will end on November 30, 2018. Despite the official seasonal boundaries, tropical cyclone formation is possible at any time in the year. This season will be the first instance of live recording and tracking of tropical cyclones in the basin.

Seasonal forecasts
Ahead of and during the season, several meteorological services and scientific agencies forecast how many named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes will form during a season. The forecasts include weekly and monthly changes in significant factors that help determine the number of tropical storms, hurricanes, major hurricanes, and suoer hurricanes within a particular year.

Pre-season Outlook
The first forecasts of the year was issued by the Roy Meteorological Agency on May 5, 2018. They predict that the 2018 season will be an above-average season, predicting a total of 19 named storms, 7 hurricanes, 4 major hurricanes, and 0 super hurricanes (commonly referred to as supercanes). On May 6, 2018, the Hypothetical Hurricane Center released their forecast for the season, anticipating a total of 23 named storms, 12 hurricanes, 6 major hurricanes, and 2 supercanes. On the same day, the Lucarius Hurricane Center released their forecast, calling for a total of 16-18 named storms, 8-10 hurricanes, 3-5 major hurricanes, and 1-2 supercanes.

Outlook and Advisories


1818 UTC Sat May 19 2018

Special Tropical Weather Outlook Roy Meteorological Agency 1818 UTC Sat May 19 2018

1. A broad area of low pressure southeast of Island A is continuing to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms. The system have become more organized over the last few hours, and may develop into a tropical depression in the next few day. The next Special Tropical Weather Outlook on this system will be issued on 8 PM EST later today.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.

Seasonal Statistics
The following table lists all of the storms that formed in the 2018 Roy Kingdom hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, affected areas, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 2018 USD (the listed damage figures are in millions).

Storm Names
The following list of names will be used to name tropical cyclones that forms in the basin. This season will be the first time this list will be used, though it is not known whether or not this list will be used again. Retired names, if any, will be announced by the Roy Meteorological Agency (RMA) in January 2019.