2052 Atlantic Hurricane Season

The 2052 Atlantic Hurricane Season consisted of 29 depressions, 28 of them becoming named storms. This season set the record of named storms, making it to Iota in the second list of storms, the Greek alphabet. The storms this season caused extensive damage in the Caribbean, the United States of America, Mexico, and Central America. Strong extratropical storms caused damage in Europe and Canada as well. The most catastrophic events this season were Hurricane Athena, Hurricane Mateo, and Hurricane Tara. These three storms combined caused nearly $250 billion dollars in damage and almost 25,000 deaths. Hurricane Athena made a Category 4 landfall in Florida and curved into Georgia as a Category 3 storm. Athena later made it back into the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Mexico as a Category 2 storm. Mateo, the second majorly noticed storm of the season, made landfall in Belize as a Category 3 storm, then quickly strengthened and stalled off the coast of Mexico as a category 5 storm. When Mateo moved again, it made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. The third and strongest storm of the season, Tara, formed about 400 miles west of Africa, and quickly intensified. She became a major hurricane after only 30 hours (after being upgraded to a tropical depression). Tara then slowly intensified, remaining a strong Category 4 storm for nearly 5 days. Tara finally made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane in the Windward Islands, then in Puerto Rico. Tara also destroyed the Dominican Republic and Haiti, then severely damaged Cuba as a category 4 hurricane. Tara made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm later, and caused nearly 10,000 deaths total.

The hurricane season officially started June 1, but Athena formed on the third. A record five storms formed in June, and three storms formed in July. Six storms formed in August, including Mateo, and seven formed in September. Five storms formed in October, three formed in November, and two storms formed in December. This record breaking season involved 9 major hurricanes forming in the months August and September, the earliest Category 5 storm, the longest lasting tropical depression, the deadliest Atlantic Hurricane, the costliest Atlantic Hurricane, and more.