2020 Pacific Hurricane Season (Dane)

Overview
The 2020 Pacific Hurricane Season was an above average Hurricane Season. The season officially began on May 15th, 2020 and ended on November 30th, 2020. It featured a total of 18 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes. Though not reaching the level of activity expierienced in 2015, the season was rather active, tying 2017 for named storm activity, and being slightly more active than 2019. It also became the second season in a row to not have a storm which attained Category 5 status, with that last occurring from 2018's Hurricane Walaka. The season's strongest storm was Hurricane Genevieve- which much like its 2014 counterpart, rode through the Eastern Pacific and eventually into the Western Pacific near the middle and end of July. 2020 also became the second straight season without a preseason storm, with the first storm forming a week after the season's start on May 22nd.

2020's most destructive storm was Hurricane Norbert, which made landfall as a Category 2 in early September along southern Baja California. Norbert is responsible for a large majority of 2020's damages.

Most forecasters initally predicted a slightly above average season due to the possible emergence of an El Nino. Despite this El Nino never materializing, the season expierienced rather favorable conditions for tropical development and achieved a slightly higher total than 2019, in large part to an active July, where six storms of at least Tropical Storm strength developed.