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Climate prediction centre NOAA

Overview
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season broke
many tropical cyclone records. The season featured
a record 27 tropical storms (TS), a record 15 hurricanes (H), a record four category-5 hurricanes,a record estimated Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index (Bell et al. 2000) of 285% of the median (Fig. 1), and an ACE contribution of 131% of the median from named storms forming outside the Main Developmentregion [MDR, consisting of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea south of 21.5°N]. The season also featured a record fifteen landfalling named storms in the Atlantic Basin, a record four landfalling U.S.major hurricanes [MH, defined as categories 3-5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, Simpson (1974)], a record seven named storms during June-July, and a record 10 named storms forming after 1 October. The seven major hurricanes during the season is one shy of the record set in 1950…