2005 Atlantic hurricane season/Steven's reimagined version

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a record-breaking hyperactive season, the most active season in recorded history, and one of the costliest and deadliest seasons of all time. The season began on June 1, 2005, and it ended on November 30, 2005, dates of which conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The season exceeded these bounds when Arlene formed on May 28 and the last storm dissipated on January 1, becoming one of only two seasons to have a storm cross over to the next year. Overall, the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season produced 32 tropical cyclones, of which 29 developed into tropical storms; 19 storms attained hurricane intensity, and 11 hurricanes further reached major hurricane status, all of these numbers breaking records.

The strongest and costliest storm of the season was Wilma, which became the strongest storm ever recorded, reaching the incredible intensity of 315 mph and 734 mbar. Due to the intensity of Wilma and a couple other storms this season, the NHC introduced Category 6, Category 7, Category 8, Category 9, and Category 10 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Category 6 would be reserved for storms between 195-229 mph, Category 7 for 230-299 mph, Category 8 for 300-349 mph, Category 9 for 350-399 mph, and Category 10 for storms exceeding 400 mph. These intensities were never reached before 2005, and during this season, 2 storms, Wilma and Ophelia, qualified for the new categories, while Jose came close. Jose was the deadliest storm of the season, causing an incredible 54,876 deaths and $250 billion dollars in damage as it raged through the Lesser and Greater Antilles, Central America, Mexico, the U.S. Gulf Coast, and the east coast of the U.S. Jose still wasn't the costliest storm of the season however. Wilma, the monster Category 8 storm, caused $404 billion dollars in damage as it raged through the Caribbean and hit Mexico and the U.S. as a C7/C8 storm. Ophelia, the other C6+ storm, slightly affected the Windward Islands and Newfoundland, and it reached Category 6 out in open waters after intensifying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded in history. Also of note: Dennis, Franklin, Harvey, Katrina, Rita, Stan, Beta, and Delta were also very devastating storms. Each one of these storms, except for Stan, reached major hurricane intensity (C3+ on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale), and most of these storms struck the U.S. The ones that didn't strike the U.S. were Harvey, Stan, and Delta, but these storms each struck Central America and caused hundreds of deaths. Delta also crossed into the EPac and moved at a very southerly latitude. Out of the above list of devastating storms, Franklin and Katrina reached Category 5 intensity. Franklin struck the east coast of the U.S. as a Category 4, and Katrina was a very slow-moving storm that caused lots of devastation in Louisiana by staying just offshore for a couple days as a Category 5. It later made landfall and became the 3rd-costliest hurricane of the season. The storms in the above list that weren't mentioned yet (Dennis, Rita, and Beta) also peaked at major hurricane status and struck the U.S and other countries and caused plenty of destruction and deaths. Another unusual storm was Vince, which peaked as a Category 1 and became the first storm on record to strike Ireland. Overall, this was an extremely hyperactive season, especially for the time. This season was so bad that lots of areas have a very long road of recovery to come, and the NHC called this season a "once in a ten thousand years" occurrence. Others blamed the extreme activity to global warming.

Storm names
The following names were used to name storms in the North Atlantic during 2005. Names that were not used are marked in. This is the same list used in the 1999 season with the exception of Franklin and Lee, which replaced Floyd and Lenny. The names Franklin, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, and Theta were used for the first time this year. This season used seventeen previously unused names, the most ever in an Atlantic season. Vince and Wilma were the first named "V" and "W" storms ever in the Atlantic basin. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2011 season.

Retirement
In the spring of 2006, at the 27th Session of the World Meteorological Organization's Regional Association Hurricane Committee, the WMO retired the names Dennis, Franklin, Harvey, Jose, Katrina, Rita, Stan, and Wilma from its rotating name lists. They were replaced by Don, Frankie, Harry, Joshua, Katia, Rina, Sean, and Whitney for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. The number of names retired (8) is the most ever recorded for an entire season.

List for 2011: