1980 What-might-have-been Atlantic hurricane season (Cooper)

The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season featured the most named storms in the month of November until being surpassed in 2001 and 2004. The season officially started on June 1, 1980, and ended on November 30, 1980. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year in which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic Ocean.

The 1980 season was active, with a total of 12 named storms forming. The strongest of these storms was Hurricane Allen, an early-forming Category 5 hurricane that caused considerable damage in the Caribbean before striking Florida in mid-August.