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Thirty major hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones occurred in the northern hemisphere in 2015—the previous record was 23—and many of them reached places that don't see many storms.
NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, using data from Unisys Weather. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
Published December 5, 2015 Data acquired January 1 - December 2, 2015