🌀 Gamma · Category 1 · 75 mph

Friday, October 2, 2020 · 12:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Hurricane Gamma was a tropical cyclone that brought heavy rains, flooding, and landslides to the Yucatán Peninsula in early October 2020. The twenty-fifth depression, twenty-fourth named storm and ninth hurricane of the extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Gamma developed from a vigorous tropical wave that had been monitored as it was entering the Eastern Caribbean on September 29. The wave moved westward and slowed down as it moved into the Western Caribbean, where it began to interact with a dissipating cold front. A low formed within the disturbance on October 1 and the next day, it organized into a tropical depression. It further organized into Tropical Storm Gamma early the next day. It continued to intensify and made landfall as a minimal hurricane near Tulum, Mexico, on October 3. It weakened over land before reemerging in the Gulf of Mexico. Gamma then briefly restrengthened some before being blasted by high amounts of wind shear, causing it to weaken again. It made a second landfall as a tropical depression in Nichili, Mexico on October 6 before dissipating as it was absorbed by the approaching Hurricane Delta. Category 1 hurricane: peak winds of 75 mph (65 knots), lowest pressure 978 mb. October 2 – October 6, 2020. Landfalls: October 3 at 75 mph, 20.2°N 87.4°W; October 6 at 35 mph, 21.6°N 88.4°W. Accumulated cyclone energy: 2.8. Wiki link Track: NOAA National Hurricane Center, HURDAT2 best track AL252020 (public domain).

🌀 Gamma · Category 1 · 75 mph