Hurricane Emmy (2018)

Hurricane Emmy was a powerful, fairly long-lived hurricane that made two Category 4 landfalls: one in Floridog and the other in Pupsas. The thirty-first named storm, seventeenth hurricane, and ninth major hurricane, the storm developed three days after it emerged off of Afripup. On September 7, a tropical invest was named Tropical Storm Emmy. Meteorologists predicted the storm to peak as a weak Category 1 hurricane and move out to sea. Emmy struggled to become a hurricane early in its existence, but eventually became one late on September 13. The storm became a major hurricane late on September 15 and a Category 4 hurricane later that day.

Emmy did not impact any land when it was a struggling tropical storm. It finally reached hurricane status on September 13 near the Boxer Islands. After that, rapid intensification was put into action. Emmy rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane on September 15 with winds of 130 mph. Straight after that, the storm slammed into Floridog.

The storm entered the Gulf of Mexipup the next day as a weaker, Category 3 hurricane. Conditions in the Gulf were favorable, so Emmy intensified again, this time into a stronger Category 4 hurricane with winds of 145 mph and a minimum barometric pressure of 938 mbar. Late on September 18, the storm barreled into Pupsas just under peak intensity. From there, the storm rapidly weakened and was declared an extratropical cyclone on September 21.



Retirement and Criticism
On December 28, 2018, the Puppy Hurricane Center chose to retire the name, Emmy, due to the storm's widespread destruction and mass number of casualties. On January 2, 2019, it was subsequently replaced with Emerson, respectively.

Immediately after Emmy's replacement, the media gave lots of public criticism about the replacement. They thought that it was "way too similar to the other storm" and "will haunt people even more if it impacts the Gulf Coast". As of now, the Puppy Hurricane Center has no intentions of striking the replacement name, Emerson, off the list. It is scheduled to be used in 2020.