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Alabama NewsCenter: 2020 Hurricane Season One for the Record Books

| December 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

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By Michael Sznajderman

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Monday and folks aren’t likely to forget it anytime soon.

A record 30 named storms marked the 2020 season, which officially began June 1 and ended Nov. 30. The storms actually started piling up before the season started.

Thirteen of the 30 storms became hurricanes, the second-highest number of hurricanes ever recorded in a single year. Six were classified as major hurricanes, with top winds of 111 mph or greater, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Twelve of the storms made landfall in the continental U.S.

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