2018 Atlantic hurricane season/Version 2

**2018 Atlantic hurricane season/Version 2**
First system formed	June 23, 2018
Last system dissipated	December 5, 2018
Strongest storm	Ernesto – 170 mph (275 km/h) (1-minute sustained)
Total depressions	21
Total storms	20
Hurricanes	13
Major hurricanes (Cat. 3+)	6
Total fatalities	934 direct, 233 indirect
Total damage	≥ $145.8 billion (2018 USD)
Atlantic hurricane seasons	2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

The season will have 20 named storms, 12 hurricanes and 6 major hurricanes

Seasonal forecasts[]

Timeline of tropical activity in the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season

Second most active season, passing 1933.
Second most hurricanes in a season on record, surpassing 1969 and 2010.
Costliest season on record.
Record tying for most storms in September with multiple seasons.
Hurricane Valerie makes landfall to the US as a hurricane on November 30, making it the latest US hurricne landfall since 1999.
Five simultaneous storms, four simultaneous hurricanes on September 18, only one out of three occurrances.
Four simultaneous storms on September 26, making this the only season to have four simultaneous storms on two occasions.
Three storms simultaneously make landfall to the United States on September 27.
Hurricane Patty becomes the strongest storm to make landfall at Portugal, surpassing Hurricane Vince of 2005
Tropical Storm William forms over the 50 degree latitude and makes landfall at Labrador. The only system to make the farthest known development or landfall of any system.
Hurricane Kirk travels for 5800 miles, making it the 5th tropical cyclone to travel at a very long distance.

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In the spring of 2019, at Session XLI of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)'s Regional Association Hurricane Committee, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) retired the names , Ernesto, Isaac, Kirk, and Nadine from List IV of the Atlantic hurricane naming lists.