The 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season is less than two months old and records for the season started to fall before the season even began.  On Wednesday, we added yet another record to the list.

With the development of Tropical Depression Seven on Tuesday and it being upgraded to a tropical storm early Wednesday morning, Gonzalo officially becomes the seventh named storm of the 2020 Atlantic tropical season. This surpasses the record for the earliest developing "G" storm in the Atlantic Basin.

On July 24, 2005, Tropical Storm Gert formed in the Bay of Campeche.  Gert held the record for the earliest developing "G" storm until Tropical Storm Gonzalo was upgraded on Wednesday.

Several other records had already been set by this year's young tropical season.  The first record was set before the season even officially begin when Tropical Storms Arthur and Bertha developed in May, before the June 1st start date of the Atlantic Tropical season.  This was the sixth year in a row for tropical development before the start of the season...  A record.

Tropical Storms Cristobal, Edouard and Fay all set records for the earliest development of the "C", "E" and "F" storms.  Those storms are now joined by Gonzalo. 

It should be noted, that the records broken by Edouard, Fay and Gonzalo, were held by storms that developed in the very active hurricane season of 2005.  That season holds the infamous record of having the most tropical systems in a single season, 31. Of those, 27 were named storms.

Just a note, the earliest developing "H" storm, Tropical Storm Harvey, was also a 2005 season storm.  Harvey developed on August 3rd.  So this means its possible that we may see more records fall in the coming weeks of the hurricane season.

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