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The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so intense, it just ran out of storm names – and then two more storms formed

  • Written by Kimberly Wood, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University
imageHurricanes Marco and Laura swept through the Gulf of Mexico just two days apart in August 2020.Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

Here’s how active this year’s Atlantic hurricane season has been: When Tropical Storm Wilfred formed on Sept. 18, the National Hurricane Center exhausted its list of storm names for only the second time...

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