Last weekend’s tropical storm Fay, which brought heavy rain and high winds to much of the U.S. East Coast, was a record-breaker.

It’s not that Fay was particularly fierce—although six people were killed in flooding and rip tides and the weather system caused an estimated $400 million in damage. But Fay was the sixth named Atlantic storm of the 2020 and the third to make landfall in the U.S.

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