Hurricane season begins Tuesday, June 1. It's expected to be another active hurricane season, so it's a good time to look back on last year, which was one of the most active hurricane seasons on record.

2020 produced a record 30 named storms, 14 of which became hurricanes and 11 of which made landfall in the U.S. The season ran through its names list, taking us well into the Greek alphabet, for only the second time in history.

One of the most memorable storms of the season was Hurricane Laura's Category 4 landfall in Cameron, Louisiana, in late August, which was one of the strongest landfalls in the U.S., and the strongest storm to make landfall in the state.

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Less than a month and a half later, the same area of Louisiana received a second wallop from Hurricane Delta. The storm made landfall in Creole, Louisiana, just 14 miles east of Cameron, as a Category 2 storm, bringing more flooding and significant damage to a location that had no time to bounce back from Laura.

Hurricanes Eta and Iota also packed a one-two punch with a similar path of destruction, this time in Central America. The hurricanes both made landfall in Nicaragua as Category 4 storms, and they hit just 15 miles apart within two weeks of one another. The back-to-back hurricanes unleashed devastating landslides and flooding as they weakened and tracked across Central America.

Click through the slideshow above for a reminder of how powerful and life changing a devastating hurricane season can be.

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