Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 59 minutes ago
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season officially concluded on Nov. 30.
It was a fairly average hurricane season with 14 named storms, eight of which strengthened into hurricanes. Two of these became major hurricanes (category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale). Despite this, it became one of the costliest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.
Additionally, it was the first season since 1997 in which no tropical cyclones formed in August, and the first season on record to do so during a La Niña year.
The GOES East (GOES-16) satellite recorded this imagery of the entire Atlantic basin from its operational location of 75.2 degrees west longitude. This allows us to show storms as they form off the coast of Africa and then enter the Atlantic.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season officially concluded on Nov. 30.
It was a fairly average hurricane season with 14 named storms, eight of which strengthened into hurricanes. Two of these became major hurricanes (category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale). Despite this, it became one of the costliest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.
Additionally, it was the first season since 1997 in which no tropical cyclones formed in August, and the first season on record to do so during a La Niña year.
The GOES East (GOES-16) satellite recorded this imagery of the entire Atlantic basin from its operational location of 75.2 degrees west longitude. This allows us to show storms as they form off the coast of Africa and then enter the Atlantic.
