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The 2055 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, with several records being broken across many categories. The season had catestrophic impacts, reaching an unprecedented $519.44 billion, achieving the most damages in a single season in addition to a total fatality count of 7,850 of which is the fourth highest on record, only bested by 1780, 1998 and 1974.
The majority of the destruction was primarily caused by seven storms; Jerry, Maddie, Sora, Trinity, Winona, Gamma and Sonia. Jerry was the only one of those not to have achieved major hurricane intensity. The most devastated place is debated, mostly between the US Gulf Coast, Lesser Antilles and Central America.
The US Gulf Coast saw several landfalling storms including Brian, Chandra, Maddie, Trinity, Van, Winona, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Sonia, Iota and Kappa. The strongest of the landfalls being in Texas and Mexico with two Category 5 landfalls each and the most frequently hit being Florida. The Lesser Antilles saw multiple tropical cyclones a month, while usually not very strong while impacting them (the exception being Sora). Central America was utterly devastated particularly from Trinity in the later portion September. This was caused mostly from repeated rain from bands and the outer cores of cyclones (especially those of which from gyres during the October and November months), despite said cyclones never making a direct landfall.
The 2055 season became the fifth season to observe more named storms and the third with more hurricane-equivalents than the West Pacific, despite the latter of which averaging nearly twice as more yearly named storms. The only other years to do this are 2005, 2010, 2025 and 2049. 2024 also featured an equal amount of named storms between the Atlantic and West Pacific basins with 21 each.
The season officially started on June 1 and lasted until November 30. However, a record total of 5 systems existed beyond these days in March, April, May and December (One, Andrea, Brice, Chandra and Mu respectively). Thirty Five systems formed, Thirty three of which becoming named and Twenty Four of those further intensified into hurricanes with Fourteen of those reaching major hurricane status. Four of those were Category 5 hurricanes, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale possible. Hurricane Sonia has been added to these totals due to it having reached peak intensity within the Atlantic basin. All of these storm totals amount to record highs. Seven of those storms broke the records for Earliest forming Atlantic major, Strongest Atlantic July Hurricane, Northernmost nameable Atlantic cyclone, Costliest Atlantic Hurricane, Most Intense Puerto Rico Landfall, Most Intense Atlantic Hurricane and Latest Existing Atlantic Hurricane (Daina, Finely, Karen, Maddie, Sora, Trinity and Mu respectively). The 2055 season was also only the third Atlantic hurricane season and fifth NHC-monitored basin season to use up the annual naming lists and have to use greek letters as names joining the Atlantic's 2005, 2048 and 2049 seasons as well as the Eastern Pacific's 2032 and 2057 seasons.
On February 27, an upper-level trough was cut off into an upper-level low and it began to interact with the tail end of a deteriorating cold front accompanied by a low-level vorticy. The two systems produced a broad area of low pressure associated with moderate convection which began to quickly develop a well-defined, albeit exposed circulation, coalescing into the classification of Subtropical Depression One on March 1. However, the system did not manage to intensify further due to unfavorable conditions and was classified as post-tropical the next day. It's remnants did not last long before being absorbed by another cold front later on March 2.
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 2055. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2061 season. This was the same list used in the 2049 season, with the exception of the names Parker, Trinity and Winona which replaced Pablo, Tanya and Wendy. The names Parker, Trinity and Winona were used for the first time this year.
Andrea
Brice
Chandra
Daina
Erin
Finley
Georgia
Harper
Inigo
Jerry
Karen
Lincoln
Maddie
Nestor
Oprah
Parker
Rebekah
Sora
Trinity
Van
Winona
Retirement
On March 26, 2056, at the 78th session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the names Jerry, Maddie, Sora, Trinity and Winona from its rotating naming lists due to the number of deaths and amount of damage they caused, and they will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. They will be replaced with Joshua, Morgan, Sawyer, Thea and Wynter respectively, for the 2061 season. The WMO did not retire any names of the greek alphabet as it was ruled to be not practical to do so.
The name Sonia was also retired and replaced with Stella for the 2061 Pacific hurricane season, dealing significant damages in both the Atlantic and East Pacific basins.
Season Effects
This is a table of all the storms that formed in the 2055 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, affected areas, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a tropical wave, or a low, and all the damage figures are in 2017 USD. Potential tropical cyclones are not included in this table.
