2024 Atlantic hurricane season (Avdis)

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the first hyperactive season and the most disastrous since 2020. It marked the end of a streak of three consecutive below-average seasons from 2021 to 2023. It featured twenty depressions, from which sixteen were named. Nine systems became hurricanes and four became major hurricanes. It officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. However, the formations of Subtropical Storm Alberto in late April and of Subtropical Storm Patty in early December show that cyclone formation is possible at anytime of the year. The season became the fourth-costliest on record, behind 2005, 2017 and 2020, and had catastrophic consequences on the areas it affected.

In May, Subtropical Storm Beryl became the most damaging and the wettest subtropical storm to ever develop in the Atlantic basin, stalling over Louisiana, bringing torrential rain to the region. It was also the first subtropical storm in history tog et its name retired by the World Meteorological Organization. Following Beryl, in early September, Category 4 Hurricane Francine, along its course, wreaked havoc in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and, later, Texas. Wind speeds at some locations were well above Category 5 force, but the storm has not officially been upgraded after post-analysis. In October, Leslie caused tremendous damage in Belize. Soon after Mattias, despite only being classifed as a Category 1 hurricane, caused relatively large damage in Cuba and Haiti.

Very unusually, Oscar went through rapid intensification in the Gulf of Mexico on November 11. It officially became a Category 5 storm for a handful of hours, becoming the first one of its kind since Vicky in 2020. It caused enormous damage in Tampa Bay as a Category 3 hurricane, and was the costliest hurricane to hit the state of Florida.

Storm names
The following list of names will be used for named storms that form in the North Atlantic in 2024. The names not retired from this list will be used again until the 2030 season. This is the same list used in 2018, except for the names Francine and Mattias, which repalce respectively Florence and Michael. The names Francine and Mattias were used for the first time this year.

Retirement
In April of 2025, the World Meteorological Organization decided to retire the names Beryl, Francine, Leslie, and Oscar, meaning that they will never be used again for an Atlantic hurricane. They were replaced by Bailey, Filomena, Leonor and Olly for the 2030 season.