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The 2020 Atlantic usercane season was the most active Atlantic usercane season on record in terms of the number of systems forming, with 74 tropical usercyclones. However, almost all of the storms were weak, and it set record lows in regard to the number of usercanes and major usercanes that would be surpassed two years later. Only three of the 74 usercyclones, Alexis, Baltic, and Nxsa, became a usercane and only Nxsa became a major usercane. The season ran year-round in 2020, with most storms forming between June and December. The season's first storm, Tropical Userstorm Eagle, developed on January 3, and the final storm, Explosion, formed on December 16.
Ahead of and during the season, several national meteorological services and scientific agencies forecast how many named userstorms, usercanes, and major usercanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale) will form during a season. These agencies include the National Usercane Center (NUC), Bob Nekaro Weather Center (BNWC), Hypercane's Meteorological Center (HMC), Porygonal Weather Service (PWS), Cooper Meteorological Agency (CMA), and many others.
The first prediction was made by the FCXGCTC on December 31st, 2019 just before the start of the season. It was later followed by 2 more predictions, from the HSMC, IMD, and the SHMC. On January 1, 2020, the NUC issued its first seasonal forecast, calling for 20 to 25 named storms, 1 to 3 usercanes, and 0 to 1 major usercanes. That same day, the OSM (OCC) predicted a total of 21–29 named storms, 2–6 usercanes, and 0–2 major usercanes. Later on January 1st, the Hurricane Lucas Meteorological Agency (HLMA) issued its first usercane forecast, calling for 22–26 named storms, 1–4 usercanes, and 0–2 major usercanes. The next day, the WHC and the FMC released their usercane forecasts. The LCA would release their first forecast for the season calling for 23–30 named userstorms, 1–5 usercanes and 0–2 major usercanes, on January 4th, along with WSHA predicting 33–45 userstorms, 2–4 usercanes and 0–2 major usercanes to form. On January 7, the TDKNCC issued its forecast, calling for 19–27 named userstorms, 1–4 usercanes, and 1 major usercane. On the 11th of the same month, the PCWC called for 30–40 named userstorms, 2–5 usercanes, and 0–2 major usercanes. Eight days later, the STCC Atlantic issued its forecast of 33–38 named userstorms, 4–6 usercanes, and 0–1 major usercanes. Two days later on January 21st, the IDKHC called for 20–30 named userstorms, a higher than most, 15–19 usercanes, and 2–4 major usercanes. A month later, the RMA issued its forecast of 22–30 userstorms, 1–3 usercanes, and 0–2 major usercanes. Two days later on February 23rd, the DUAWC released their forecast calling for 20-45 storms. Both the MWC and CGFC released their predictions in early March, each calling for more than 20 userstorms, with the latter calling for less usercanes.
A tropical userwave was first noted on the afternoon of January 1, located southwest of the Cabo Verde islands. The userwave rapidly organized, and was designated as Tropical Userpression One by the NUC on January 3. One continued to rapidly organize, reaching tropical userstorm status on January 12, and receiving the name Eagle upon doing so. However, shortly after reaching userstorm status, Eagle abruptly stopped strengthening, but resumed its organization later that month. Eagle weakened to a userpression on February 29th. However, after it moved into more favorable conditions a few months later, Eagle regenerated in early June, being renamed Yuno.
A tropical userwave in the eastern Tropical Atlantic was first noted on September 8, 2019. The userwave went through several cycles between quick improvements and subsequent stagnation in its organization throughout the next several months, and on January 12, the userwave finally developed into Tropical Userpression Two while over the central Tropical Atlantic. Just after it attained userpression status, it stopped organizing, and by the end of the month, Two began to show signs of degenerating. Two would lose its definable circulation and degenerate into a remnant low by January 27.
During early January, a tropical userwave left the coast of Africa, and drifted throughout the MDR until January 17, when it abruptly became Tropical Userpression Three. Three quickly strengthened to Tropical Userstorm Andreka. Andreka kept strengthening, peaking at 45 mph with a pressure of 1005 millibars before unexpectedly degenerating into a remnant low on January 29, due to a high pocket of cold sea surface temperatures & extremely high wind shear.
A tropical userwave was first noted on January 1. The wave organized throughout the month, becoming a depression on February 1 over the central Atlantic. The userpression continued to organize. However, on March 3rd, the storm entered an area of high wind shear, and degenerated into a remnant low.
In July of 2019, a tropical userwave moved off the coast of Africa. The system moved westward before turning to the north. The system started to slowly gain organization throughout 2020, and, on April 8th of that year, it developed into Tropical Userpression Ten.
Poxy formed off of a remnant low that moved off of West Africa the June 19th. The system slowly organized, but all but disappeared for the 2 months after June. Then, in early September, the storm began rapidly organizing, becoming Tropical Userpression Thirty at 14:31 UTC September 15th, 2020. Continuing to intensify, it reached it's peak intensity in mid-December of 2020. Then, in January 2021, its intensity began fluctuating, and its circulation began diminishing. By June, the storm had lost all circulation, and the NUC declared it post-tropical on the 24th. In mid-September, however, the storm restrengthened into a tropical userpression. On September 27th, the storm reintensified into a tropical userstorm. It continued to intensify throughout September, but by late November, XIO began to weaken significantly due to high wind shear. Over the next few months, XIO slowly dissipated, however due to a lack of advisories, the storm was never technically declared post-tropical. On October 2, the NUC noticed that XIO had returned for the third time as a highly sheared userpression. On October 17, the storm was renamed to to Poxy and remained steady for two months before dissipating again on December 12th. It's believed Poxy regenerated in September 2023.
This is a table of all the userstorms that have formed in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s), denoted in parentheses, 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 USD.