Memorial Day may be the unofficial start of summer, but June 1 is the official start of the Atlantic Basin hurricane season.

The 2020 hurricane season may have slipped the notice of Southern Ocean County residents who, although they witnessed two tropical storms, never came close to a hurricane that posed significant danger. But it was a record year for hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin in multiple ways, what with 30 named storms, 11 of which made landfall in the U.S.