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Fitting to the theme of 2020, extreme weather events and seasonal activity set new worst-ever records this year, surpassing already pessimistic forecast predictions.

In the East, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season brought a record-breaking 30 named storms. On the West Coast, California endured its fourth-consecutive worst-ever wildfire season, devastated by fires that now make up five of the six largest wildfires in recorded state history.

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