Hurricane Sean (Mario's version)

Hurricane Sean was the second Atlantic hurricane to exist in the month of December on record, after Hurricane Epsilon in 2005. One of a few known systems to exist in the Caribbean Sea in the month of December, Sean was the eighteenth and final named storm as well as the eleventh hurricane of the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. The origins of Sean were first identified as a broad area of low pressure in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on December 4. Despite being in the off-season, unusually favorable conditions allowed development of the disturbance, before developing into a tropical depression on December 8, and a tropical storm shortly afterwards. Moving northeast, Sean slowly intensified, before becoming a hurricane on December 11. Increasingly unfavorable wind shear and dry air began to disrupt the hurricane shortly after peak intensity, and Sean made landfall very late on December 12 as a minimal hurricane in the eastern part of the Dominican Republic. Afterwards, rapid weakening ensued as it quickly accelerated into the subtropical Atlantic, before being absorbed by a frontal zone on December 14.