August was an active month with 21 systems having formed.
Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina with deadly flooding, resulting in $24.23 billion in damages and killed 53 people, making it one of the costliest hurricanes to strike North Carolina, and the fourth deadliest to strike.
Florence was also the first storm in the turn of activity.
In the same month, Hurricane Lane made an extremely close pass near Hawaii after peaking as a Category 5 Hurricane, becoming Hawaii's wettest tropical cyclone on record and the second wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history, only behind Hurricane Harvey.
August was an active month with 21 systems having formed. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina with deadly flooding, resulting in $24.23 billion in damages and killed 53 people, making it one of the costliest hurricanes to strike North Carolina, and the fourth deadliest to strike. Florence was also the first storm in the turn of activity. In the same month, Hurricane Lane made an extremely close pass near Hawaii after peaking as a Category 5 Hurricane, becoming Hawaii's wettest tropical cyclone on record and the second wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history, only behind Hurricane Harvey.
Tropical cyclones in 2018