The number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic
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Climate Science
December 2020
2020 has been an unusual and challenging year in many ways. One was the record-breaking number of named tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic (and the Carribean Sea). There has been 30 named North Atlantic tropical cyclones in 2020, beating the previous record of 28 from 2005 by two.
A natural question then is whether we can expect this high number in the future or if the number of tropical storms will continue to increase. A high number of such events is equivalent to a high frequency of tropical cyclones.
But we should expect fewer tropical cyclones generally in a warmer world according to the IPCC “SREX†report from 2012, and those that form may become even more powerful than the ones that we have observed to date:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/12/the-number-of-tropical-cyclones-in-the-north-atlantic/
