2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
The first of the semi-finals, between Price and Wright, was a bad-tempered affair. Wright won the first set against the darts, tapping his opponent on the arm and making comments to him as they went off for the break. Price levelled the match after the second set and celebrated exuberantly. Each player won two of the next four sets before Wright won three sets in a row to win the match and reach the second world championship final of his career. There was no handshake between the two players after the match, and Price said on Twitter that he had thought Wright's actions after the first set were out of order; later apologising for his remarks.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
In the second semi-final, between Van Gerwen and Aspinall, the reigning champion took the first set against the darts, before Aspinall levelled in the second. Van Gerwen broke again in the third set only for Aspinall to win the fourth set in a decider. Aspinall missed a dart to win the fifth set and Van Gerwen took the lead again, before winning the sixth set 3–0 to take a two-set lead in the match. Aspinall won the seventh set, but Van Gerwen took the next two to secure his place in the final against Wright, a repeat of the 2014 PDC World Darts Championship final.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
In the final, held on New Year's Day 2020, Wright held the first set with a 3–2 win after Van Gerwen missed bullseye for a set-winning 170 checkout. Wright then took a two-set lead with a 3–1 set win, before Van Gerwen broke back in the third set with a 3–0 win, and won the fourth by 3–2. Wright regained the lead in the fifth and then took a 3–0 win in the sixth set to go back to two legs clear.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Tournament summary
Again, Van Gerwen broke back with a 3–1 in the seventh; but Wright quickly regained the advantage, winning the eight set 3–2. Wright went one away from the win with a 3–2 win in the ninth set. In the tenth set, Wright won the first leg. Van Gerwen missed double-12 for a perfect nine-dart finish in the second leg, but took the leg regardless. Wright won the third leg to throw for the match; and took out double-10 to win the world championship for the first time.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Draw
The draw took place on 25 November 2019 on Sky Sports News.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Top averages
This table shows the highest averages achieved by players throughout the tournament.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Representation
This table shows the number of players by country in the 2020 PDC World Championship. A total of 28 nationalities were represented, sharing the record of the 2019 edition.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Media coverage
As with every previous PDC World Darts Championship, Sky Sports provided live coverage to the UK and Ireland. Sky Sports Darts, a temporary channel, broadcast all the games, with certain days simulcast on Sky Sports Main Event. BDO Ladies player Laura Turner and PDC player Devon Petersen joined the commentary team, alongside former players Wayne Mardle, John Part, Mark Webster and Rod Harrington, and commentators Rod Studd, Stuart Pyke, Nigel Pearson and David Croft. Dave Clark served as lead presenter, with Laura Woods and David Croft also hosting sessions.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Media coverage
TalkSPORT held the national radio rights to the tournament, with the majority of their coverage to be held on talksport 2. The coverage was presented by Andy Goldstein & Ray Stubbs. Commentary was provided by Nigel Pearson, John Gwynne, Ian Danter, Chris Mason, Paul Nicholson and Chris Murphy.


2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Media coverage
International broadcasters included DAZN in the United States and RTL in the Netherlands.


2020 PDC World Youth Championship
The 2020 PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship was the tenth edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for darts players aged between 16 and 23.


2020 PDC World Youth Championship
The group stage and knock-out phase from the last 32 to the semi-finals were played at Metrodome, Barnsley, on 28 September 2020. The final took place on 29 November 2020 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, before the final of the 2020 Players Championship Finals.


2020 PDC World Youth Championship
England's Luke Humphries was the reigning champion after defeating Adam Gawlas of the Czech Republic 6–0 in the 2019 final, but he was unable to defend his title, as he was over the age limit.


2020 PDC World Youth Championship
England's Bradley Brooks won the title after defeating compatriot Joe Davis 6–5 in the final.


2020 PDC World Youth Championship, Qualifiers
The field of 96 players is made of PDC Tour Card Holders, Development Tour players and International Qualifiers. All entrants ranked on the PDC Order of Merit were seeded first, with the top players on the Development Tour Order of Merit following up to 32 seeds. The numbers of International Qualifiers were significantly reduced due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PDRM FA season
The 2020 season was PDRM's 30th season in existence. Along with the league, the club also participated in the Malaysia Cup.


2020 PDRM FA season, Overview
On 24 January 2020, club announced 15 Malay Royal policemen registered as new players.


2020 PEI Tankard
The 2020 PEI Tankard, the provincial men's curling championship for Prince Edward Island, was held from January 8 to 12 at the Montague Curling Rink in Montague, Prince Edward Island. The winning Bryan Cochrane rink represented Prince Edward Island at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier in Kingston, Ontario and finished with a 2–5 record. The event was held in conjunction with the 2020 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's championship.


2020 PEI Tankard
The Cochrane rink went undefeated through the whole tournament, not losing a game as they won all three qualifying events.


2020 PFF League
The 2020 PFF League (PFFL) was the 12th season of second tier of Pakistan Football Federation. The season was scheduled to start on 10 March 2020 and had to conclude on 5 April 2020. However, it was shortened due to coronavirus in Pakistan.


2020 PGA Championship
The  2020 PGA Championship was the 102nd edition of the PGA Championship, and the first of golf's three major championships played in 2020. It was held August 6–9 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California, having originally been scheduled for May 14–17. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the first major played in over a year, and had no spectators in attendance. It was the first major held at Harding Park, which had previously hosted World Golf Championship events in 2005 and 2015, and the 2009 Presidents Cup.


2020 PGA Championship
Collin Morikawa won in his PGA Championship debut, and second major appearance, by two strokes ahead of runners-up Paul Casey and Dustin Johnson. The tournament had multiple players competing for the lead in the final round, and it was only after a birdie on the 14th, and an eagle on the short par-4 16th that Morikawa was able to break away from the field. At age 23, he became the third youngest PGA Championship winner since World War II, behind Rory McIlroy and Jack Nicklaus, and rose from 12th to 5th in the Official World Golf Ranking. Morikawa also set a new PGA Championship scoring record for the final 36-holes of the tournament with 129 strokes (65-64).


2020 PGA Championship
Casey's second place was his best finish in his 64 career major starts, the most by any player since 2002 without a victory. Johnson repeated his second place standing from the previous edition. Brooks Koepka entered the tournament as two-time defending champion and looking to become the second player after Walter Hagen to win three straight titles; tied for fourth place after round three, and only two shots behind the leader, he was expected to challenge for the title, but struggled in the final round and finished in a tie for 29th place. The top three players in the world rankings heading into the tournament were Justin Thomas (winner of a WGC event the previous week), Jon Rahm, and Rory McIlroy, but none of them were able to contend for the title.


2020 PGA Championship, Venue
This was the first major championship held at Harding Park. It was also the first PGA Championship in the Western United States since 1998 at Sahalee Country Club near Seattle, Washington, and the first in California since 1995 at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.


2020 PGA Championship, Venue
Harding Park had previously held the 2015 WGC-Match Play Championship, won by Rory McIlroy, the 2009 Presidents Cup won by the United States, and the 2005 WGC-American Express Championship won by Tiger Woods.


2020 PGA Championship, Venue
Before the COVID-19 pandemic up to 40,000 spectators per day had been expected to attend.


2020 PGA Championship, Field
The PGA Championship field is regarded as one of the strongest in professional golf, with the highest strength of field rating of the year according to the Official World Golf Ranking, including almost all of the top one hundred players in the rankings. A number of qualification criteria were used to determine the field, including past PGA champions, recent major winners, top finishers in the 2019 PGA Championship, Ryder Cup players, tournament and leading money winners on the PGA Tour, and twenty PGA club or teaching professionals. The PGA of America also issue invitations to players outside of these criteria, which is generally seen to include the top one hundred in the world rankings.


2020 PGA Championship, Field
Seventeen former PGA champions were in the field, including two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka, who was aiming to become the second player to win three in a row after Walter Hagen who won four in a row from 1924 to 1927, world number one Justin Thomas, number three Rory McIlroy, and four-time champion Tiger Woods. Among the former champions not to play were Yang Yong-eun, Pádraig Harrington, John Daly and Vijay Singh, who withdrew due to various concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, health and injury. Francesco Molinari, winner of the 2018 Open Championship, also withdrew.


2020 PGA Championship, Field
Following the cancellation of the 2020 PGA Professional Championship the qualification criteria for PGA club professionals was changed, and determined based on the top 20 in the 2019 PGA Professional Player of the Year Standings; they included 60-year-old Jeff Hart in his fourth PGA Championship, and 62-year old Jeff Roth in his sixth. None of the club professionals made the cut.


2020 PGA Championship, Field
The field of 156 was completed by PGA of America invitees followed by leading money winners on the PGA Tour since the 2019 championship. Among the invitees was Li Haotong, one of few from outside the top 100 in the world rankings; he went on to lead the championship by two strokes at the halfway stage, before finishing in a tie for seventeenth place. Several players withdrew from the championship, with eleven alternates gaining a place as a result (one alternate, Ryan Moore, also withdrew). Among the withdrawals were leading European players Lee Westwood and Eddie Pepperell who, like Harrington, cited concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and traveling to the United States.


2020 PGA Championship, Field
The last player to qualify was Richy Werenski, who gained his place by winning the Barracuda Championship the week prior to the PGA Championship, and the final player to take their place in the field was twelfth alternate Alex Norén, who had missed out on automatic qualification as a member of the European Ryder Cup team in 2018 having dropped out of the top 100 in the world rankings.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, First round
Jason Day, the 2015 champion, opened the tournament with a bogey-free round of 65 (five under par). He was joined at the top of the leaderboard by Brendon Todd, who was playing in his first PGA Championship in five years after falling to as low as 2,043rd in the world rankings two years earlier.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, First round
Brooks Koepka, looking to become the first player in 93 years to win the PGA Championship for the third straight year, was one of nine players tied for third place at four under par; former major champions Zach Johnson, Martin Kaymer and Justin Rose were also in the group alongside Koepka.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, First round
Bryson DeChambeau reached four under through ten holes, but dropped strokes over his last eight holes to finish at two under par. On the same score was 15-time major champion, and four-time PGA champion, Tiger Woods, who was playing alongside world number one Justin Thomas (one over par) and Rory McIlroy (even par).


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, First round
The scoring average for the first round was 71.12, the lowest for an opening-round in PGA Championship history. Todd was the only player in the top 10 to play in the windier afternoon conditions.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Second round
Li Haotong, the 114th-ranked player in the world, shot a bogey-free round of 65 (five under par) to take a two stroke lead after 36 holes. Li became the first player from China to lead a major championship after any round. The lowest rounds of the day came from Tommy Fleetwood and Cameron Champ, who returned six under par rounds of 64. Fleetwood finished in a group of six players tied for second place that included two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka, 2015 champion Jason Day and 2013 U.S. Open champion Justin Rose. Champ ended the day a further stroke behind, in a tie for eighth place with Paul Casey and Brendon Todd.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Second round
The cut came at one over par, with 79 players making it through to the final two rounds over the weekend. Among those who missed the cut were Martin Kaymer and Zach Johnson, who were tied for third place after the opening round; Jim Furyk and Richy Werenski, who had both won tournaments the previous week; and Rickie Fowler, who whiffed a short putt on his sixteenth hole of the day and went on to finish just one stroke outside the cut-line, ending a run of 14 cuts made in major championships.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Third round
Dustin Johnson returned a five under par round of 65, the joint-lowest round of the day which included a career high eight birdies for a round in a major championship, to take the lead at nine under par. Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa matched Johnson's score for the day to also make their way into the top five. Scheffler made three straight birdies on holes 15, 16 and 17 to get into a tie for second place with Cameron Champ, one stroke behind Johnson.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Third round
Morikawa finished a further stroke behind alongside Paul Casey and Brooks Koepka, who was two under par for his round and tied for the lead before making three straight bogeys on the back nine; he rebounded with birdies on two of his final three holes to get back near the top of the leaderboard.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Third round
Six players finished the day tied for seventh place, three strokes off the lead. They were first round leader Jason Day, Daniel Berger, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Tony Finau and Bryson DeChambeau. Overnight leader Li Haotong was still at the head of the field through twelve holes; he then made a double-bogey on the 13th hole after losing his ball in the trees and two further bogeys to return a three over par round of 73 and finish in a tie for 13th place, four strokes off the lead.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Third round
Seventeen players were within four shots of the lead going into the final round, the most at the PGA Championship since 1993.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round
With the last groups all playing the final nine holes, seven players were tied for the lead at 10 under par – Dustin Johnson, Paul Casey, Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa, Tony Finau, Jason Day and Matthew Wolff, who held the lead in the clubhouse. Morikawa, making his PGA Championship debut, was the first to reach 11 under par with a chip-in for birdie from 54 feet off the front of the green at the 14th hole. He was soon joined by Casey, with a birdie at the short par-4 16th hole.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Playing in the group behind Casey, Morikawa found the green with his tee shot at the 16th and holed his putt from seven feet for eagle to open up a two stroke lead. He parred the final two holes for a round of 64 (six under par) and finished at 13 under par for the tournament, two ahead of Casey who also finished with two pars for a round of 66 (four under par).


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Johnson, the 54-hole leader, was even par for his round through 15 holes before chipping in for birdie at the 16th and holing a 17-foot birdie putt at the 18th to finish at 11 under par, alongside Casey and two behind Morikawa. It was Johnson's fifth runner-up finish in a major and second consecutive second-place at the PGA Championship.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Bryson DeChambeau birdied four of his first seven holes to jump into a tie for the lead, before consecutive bogeys on the 8th and 9th holes saw him drop back; he made two more birdies on the back nine for a round of 66 and finished tied for fourth, his first top-10 in a major championship. Wolff, playing in his first major, shared fourth place, having held the clubhouse lead at 10 under par after a round of 65. Day, Finau and Scheffler also finished tied for fourth place.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Brooks Koepka, attempting to become the first player since Walter Hagen to win three straight PGA Championships, began the day two shots back but was four over par for the first nine holes and dropped out of contention; he closed with a round of 74, the second-worst of anyone in the field, to tie for 29th place.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round
Morikawa's score of 129 on the weekend was a new PGA Championship record, one shot better than Tiger Woods in 2018. His final-round score of 64 tied Steve Elkington in 1995 for best by a champion. He was also the ninth player in PGA Championship history to win the tournament at their first attempt, the most recent being Keegan Bradley in 2011.


2020 PGA Championship, Round summaries, Final round, Final leaderboard
Note: Top 15 and ties qualify for the 2021 PGA Championship; top 4 and ties qualify for the 2021 Masters Tournament


2020 PGA Championship, Media
ESPN and CBS had the media rights to the 2020 PGA Championship. This marked the first year of the new media rights deal signed in October 2018, replacing the old deal with TNT and CBS. In the UK and Ireland, Sky Sports broadcast the event.


2020 PGA Championship field
This page lists the criteria used to determine the field for the 2020 PGA Championship, the first of the men's major golf championships in 2020, and the players who qualified via them. Some criteria were amended after the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria
Each player is listed according to the first category by which he qualified with additional categories in which he qualified shown in parentheses.


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria, 8. Leading PGA professionals
Top 20 in the 2019 PGA Professional Player of the Year Standings:


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria, 9. Leading money winners on the PGA Tour
Top 70 in the PGA Championship Points standings (based on official PGA Tour money earned, calculated from the 2019 AT&T Byron Nelson to the 2020 3M Open):


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria, 10. Playing members of the Ryder Cup teams in 2018
Playing members of the United States and European 2018 Ryder Cup teams ranked within the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 27, 2020:


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria, 11. Tournaments winners on the PGA Tour
Winners of tournaments co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour since the 2019 PGA Championship:


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria, 12. PGA of America invitees not included in the categories above
PGA of America invitees not included in the categories above:


2020 PGA Championship field, Entrants by eligibility criteria, 13. Leading money winners on the PGA Tour (additional)
Players outside the top 70 in PGA Championship Points (per category 9) to complete the field:


2020 PGA Tour Canada
The 2020 PGA Tour Canada, title sponsored as the Mackenzie Tour – PGA Tour Canada, was scheduled to be the 51st season of the PGA Tour Canada, commonly known as the Canadian Tour. It would have been the eighth season under the operation of the PGA Tour and the final year of the initial six year sponsorship deal with Mackenzie Investments.


2020 PGA Tour Canada
In early March, the tour's four remaining qualifying tournaments were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 16, it was announced that the first six tournaments would also be postponed. On May 29, the tour announced the cancellation of the entire season.


2020 PGA Tour Canada
With the cancellation of the season, the PGA Tour created an eight tournament LocaliQ Series based in the United States in which tour members, along with those of the suspended 2020 PGA Tour Latinoamérica and cancelled 2020 PGA Tour China, would be eligible to compete. In addition, four tournaments, the Canada Life Series, were played in Canada in August and September to provide Canadian-based players some playing opportunities.


2020 PGA Tour Canada
All regular season events were planned to have a purse of $200,000 except and the final event of the season, the Canada Life Championship, having a purse of $225,000.


2020 PGA Tour Canada, Schedule
The table below details the 2020 PGA Tour Canada tournament schedule.


2020 PGA Tour Canada, Canada Life Series
A series of four 54-hole tournaments was organised in August and September. Each had a purse of C$50,000 with a first prize of C$9,000. The events did not get world ranking points.


2020 PN1
2020 PN1 is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Aten group, that is a temporary horseshoe companion to the Earth. There are dozens of known Earth horseshoe librators, some of which switch periodically between the quasi-satellite and the horseshoe co-orbital states.


2020 PN1, Discovery
2020 PN1 was discovered on 12 August 2020 by L. Denneau, J. Tonry, A. Heinze, and H. Weiland observingfor the ATLAS-HKO Survey. As of 20 January 2021, it has been observed 41 times with an observation arc of 361 days.


2020 PN1, Orbit and orbital evolution
2020 PN1 is currently an Aten asteroid (Earth-crossing but with a period less than a year). Its semi-major axis (currently 0.998105754 AU) is similar to that of Earth (0.999789 AU), but it has a moderate eccentricity (0.1269557) and low orbital inclination (4.80807°). It alternates between being an Aten asteroid and being an Apollo asteroid, although its orbital evolution is not fully stable and it can be considered as a temporary co-orbital companion to the Earth.


2020 PN1, Physical properties
With an absolute magnitude of 25.5 mag, it has a diameter in the range 10–50 meters (for an assumed albedo range of 0.04–0.20, respectively).


2020 PNGNRL season
The 2020 PNGNRL Digicel Cup season will be the 30th season of professional rugby league in Papua New Guinea.


2020 PNGNRL season, 2020 season
The season commenced on 5 July and ended on 18 October. In the Grand Final, Hela Wigmen defeated Lae Snax Tigers 16–14.


2020 PP1
2020 PP1 is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as a near-Earth object of the Apollo group, that is a temporary quasi-satellite of the Earth. There are over a dozen known Earth quasi-satellites, some of which switch periodically between the quasi-satellite and horseshoe co-orbital states.


2020 PP1, Discovery
2020 PP1 was discovered on 12 August 2020 by the Pan-STARRS 1 survey at the Haleakalā Observatory. It was later recovered by the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in August 2021, which allowed for precovery in earlier Pan-STARRS observations from 24 July 2017.


2020 PP1, Orbit and orbital evolution
2020 PP1 is currently an Apollo asteroid (Earth-crossing but with a period longer than a year). Its semi-major axis (currently 1.001715 AU) is similar to that of Earth (0.999789 AU), but it has both low eccentricity (0.07384) and low orbital inclination (5.827°). It alternates between being an Aten asteroid and being an Apollo asteroid, although its orbital evolution is not fully stable and it can be considered as a temporary quasi-satellite of the Earth; its orbital evolution is akin to that of 469219 Kamoʻoalewa.


2020 PP1, Physical properties
With an absolute magnitude of 26.6, it has a diameter in the range 10–30 meters (for an assumed albedo range of 0.20–0.04 respectively).


2020 PSA Annual Awards
The 2020 San Miguel Corporation (SMC) - Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Annual Awards was an annual awarding ceremony honoring the individuals (athletes, coaches and officials) and organizations that made a significant impact to Philippine sports in 2019, which was led by the medalists of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games hosted by the country.


2020 PSA Annual Awards
The event is organized by the Philippine Sportswriters Association under the leadership of Eriberto "Tito" S. Talao (Sports Editor of the Manila Bulletin). The PSA is the oldest Philippine-based media organization, which is founded in 1949, and made up of veteran and seasoned sports scribes, section editors and columnists from print media (broadsheets and tabloids), sports news websites and social media platforms.


2020 PSA Annual Awards
Among the awards set to be received this year are the Athlete of the Year (Team Philippines), Lifetime Achievement Award (Efren "Bata" Reyes), President's Award (Carlos Yulo), Executive of the Year (William "Butch" Ramirez), Mr. Basketball (Thirdy Ravena), Ms. Volleyball (Sisi Rondina), Mr. Volleyball (Bryan Bagunas), Mr. Football (Stephan Schröck), Ms. Golf (Bianca Pagdanganan), National Sports Association of the Year (Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines), Major Awards, Minor Citations, Tony Siddayao Awards for Under 17 Athletes, Posthumous Recognition, Milo Junior Athletes of the Year, and the Chooks-To-Go Fan Favorite Award.


2020 PSA Annual Awards
There will be a new set of awards including the Ms. Basketball (Jack Danielle Aninam) and Coach of the Year (Patrick Aquino) which will be handed out starting this year.


2020 PSA Annual Awards
Three-time PSA Athlete of the Year (1999, 2001 and 2006) awardee and Philippine billiards legend Efren "Bata" Reyes, who will also set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award served as the guest speaker.


2020 PSA Annual Awards
Top sports officials led by PSC Chairman and Executive of the Year awardee William "Butch" Ramirez, International Olympic Committee (IOC) representative to the Philippines Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, House Speaker and Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee Chairman Alan Peter Cayetano, Deputy House Speaker Mikee Romero, and POC President Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino are expected to attend the occasion.


2020 PSA Annual Awards
The awards night was held on March 6, 2020 at the Centennial Hall of the Manila Hotel in Manila.


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Main awards
The following are the list of main awards of the event.


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Main awards, Athletes of the Year
For claiming their second overall championship in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games hosted in the country, the PSA bestowed the Athlete of the Year honors to the Philippine National Team participated in the biennial meet. This is the second time that the National Team won the Athlete of the Year award. They were recognized with the same honors in the 2006 PSA Annual Awards after securing the championship title of the 2005 SEA Games, also held in the Philippines.


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Main awards, Athletes of the Year
The Philippine delegation, which composed of 1,115 national athletes, took home a total of 387 medals (149 golds, 117 silvers, and 121 bronzes; hitting a new record high for most number of medals since the Philippines joined the SEA Games in 1977) from the 11-nation regional sporting meet held from November 30 to December 11 at four major clusters, Clark, Subic, Metro Manila and Other Areas (Calabarzon-La Union).


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Main awards, Other major awards
Here are the other major awards to be conferred in the Awards Night.


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Citations, 2019 SEA Games Gold Medalists
All 149 gold medalists including those who won more than two or three golds in the Southeast Asian Games will get to receive the special citation from the PSA.


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Milo Junior Athletes of the Year
The award, sponsored by Milo, will be given to the two young athletes who are excelled in the field of sports.


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Tony Siddayao Awards for Under-17 Athletes
The award, which is named after Tony Siddayao (deceased, former sports editor of Manila Standard) is given out to outstanding junior athletes. Sorted in alphabetical order (based on their surnames).


2020 PSA Annual Awards, Honor roll, Posthumous Awards for Deceased Sports Personalities
The following awards, will be bestowed upon former national & collegiate athletes, officials and sports personalities who passed away in 2019. They will be honor with a short audio-video presentation and a one-minute moment of silence.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the Pac-12 Conference, scheduled to be played March 11–14, 2020, at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The winner of the tournament was to have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Tournament.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The NCAA announced on March 11, 2020 that no fans would be able to attend the Men's and Women's 2020 NCAA tournaments, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of conference basketball tournaments followed suit by either canceling entirely, or playing as scheduled, but with no spectators in attendance. However, tournaments that were held in Las Vegas, including the Pac-12, were conducted with spectators in attendance on Wednesday, March 11. By the evening of March 11, the Pac-12 announced that the remaining games would be played only with "essential staff, television network partners, credentialed media and limited family and friends."


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
On March 12, the Pac-12 canceled the tournament before any more games were to be played. On the afternoon of March 12, 2020, the NCAA announced that all remaining winter and spring championships for both men's and women's sports were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 12 Pac-12 schools are eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records. As a result, the top four teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
2. Each team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
1. Results (won-lost percentage) of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
2. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating teams with inferior records, until one team gains an advantage.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
After one team has an advantage and is seeded, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tie-breaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Awards and honors, Hall of Honor
The following former players were inducted into the Pac-12 Hall of Honor, though a planned ceremony on Friday, March 13 prior to the tourney's semifinals did not occur due to its cancelation.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Awards and honors, Hall of Honor
They are: Sean Rooks (Arizona men's basketball), Melissa Belote Ripley (Arizona State women's swimming), Don Bowden (California men's track & field), Bill Marolt (Colorado men's skiing), Dan Fouts (Oregon football), Joni Huntley (Oregon State women's track & field), Jennifer Azzi (Stanford women's basketball), Jonathan Ogden (UCLA football), Barbara Hedges (USC athletic director), Kathy Kreiner-Phillips (Utah women's skiing), Lincoln Kennedy (Washington football), and Jeanne Eggart Helfer (Washington State women's basketball).


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament presented by New York Life was a postseason tournament held March 5–8, 2020 at Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:Tie-breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding was:


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
2. Each team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
1. Results (won-lost percentage) of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
2. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating teams with inferior records, until one team gains an advantage.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
After one team has an advantage and is seeded, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tie-breaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure.


2020 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season
The 2020 Pac-12 Conference football season was the 42nd season of Pac-12 football taking place during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season was originally scheduled to begin on September 26, 2020, and end with the 2020 Pac-12 Championship Game on December 18–19, 2020, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. On July 10, 2020, the Pac-12 announced that all competition in fall sports, including football, will be played exclusively in-conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 11, 2020, the Pac-12 Conference suspended all fall sports competitions due to the ongoing pandemic.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season
On September 24, 2020 the Pac-12 Conference announced that the postponement of fall sports was to be ended and teams will return to play with a six-game Conference-only season to begin on November 6, and the Pac-12 Championship Game on December 18 with the rest of the conference seeded for a seventh game.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season
The Pac-12 is a Power Five Conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, Big Ten Conference, and the Southeastern Conference. The 2020 season is the tenth for the twelve Pac-12 teams to be divided into two divisions of six teams each, named North and South.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Previous season
The Oregon Ducks defeated Utah Utes 37–15 in the Pac-12 Football Championship Game.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Previous season
Seven teams participated in bowl games, finishing with a record of 4–3. Washington defeated Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl, 38–7. USC lost to Iowa in the Holiday Bowl, 24–49. Washington State lost to Air Force in the Cheez-It Bowl, 21–31. Arizona State defeated Florida State in the Sun Bowl, 20–14. Utah lost to Texas in the Alamo Bowl, 10–38. California defeated Illinois in the Redbox Bowl, 35–20. Oregon lost to Iowa State in the Fiesta Bowl Game, 34–17.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason
2020 Pac-12 Spring Football and number of signees on signing day:


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days
The Pac-12 will conduct its 2020 Pac-12 media days at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, in Hollywood, California, in July on the Pac-12 Network.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days
The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows:


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days, Preseason Media polls
The preseason polls was to be released in July 2020 but due to delaying the season it was released on October 7. Since 1992, the credentialed media has gotten the preseason champion correct just five times. Only nine times has the preseason pick even made it to the Pac-12 title game. Below are the results of the media poll with total points received next to each school and first-place votes in parentheses. For the 2020 poll, Oregon was voted as the favorite to win both the North Division and the Pac–12 Championship Game.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Preseason, Activism
On August 2, 2020, a few days after the Pac-12 announced a conference only season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of 13 Pac-12 football players from 10 schools released a list of demands including health and safety protections, guaranteed medical coverage for players, elimination of excessive salaries for staff, end to racial injustice in sports and society, and a profit-sharing arrangement whereby 50% of the conference revenues will be distributed evenly among athletes. The players threatened to boycott practices and games unless the demands are met.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaching changes
There were three coaching change following the 2019 season, Karl Dorrell (Colorado), Jimmy Lake (Washington) and Nick Rolovich (Washington State).


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Head coaches, Coaches
Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules
Rankings reflect those of the AP poll for that week.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules, Regular season
The regular season was originally scheduled to begin on September 26, 2020, and end on December 5, 2020. The Pac-12 Championship Game was scheduled for December 18–19, 2020. It was announced on July 10, 2020 that all non-conference games would be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules, Regular season, Week 6
The game between Stanford and Oregon State was moved from Stanford to Corvallis due to a ban on contact sports in Santa Clara County.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Schedules, Pac-12 Championship Game
The Pac-12 Championship Game, the conference's tenth championship game, will be played on December 18, 2020, at the home stadium of the division champion with the best record. It was planned to be contested by the winners of the North and South divisions. The remaining Pac-12 teams will play a series of seeded games during this week; each team will play against the cross-divisional opponent that finished in the same place in the standings. Washington, the North Division winner, was scheduled to play USC, the South Division winner, in the championship game, but COVID issues forced it back out, allowing the second-best team by record in the North, Oregon, to take their place instead.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
Rankings are from CFP rankings. All times Pacific Time Zone. Pac-12 teams shown in bold.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Postseason, Selection of teams
Arizona State, Stanford, USC, and Washington declined to pursue bowl game opportunities. UCLA and Utah opted out of playing in a bowl before their final regular season games and with their eligibility still in doubt.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and honors, Pac-12 Individual Awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Pac-12 Conference football coaches at the end of the season


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-conference teams
The following players earned All-Pac-12 honors. Any teams showing (_) following their name are indicating the number of All-Pac-12 Conference Honors awarded to that university for 1st team and 2nd team respectively.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. College Football All-American consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, Home game attendance
On September 24, 2020, the Pac–12 announced that it would only allow student-athlete families to attend football games this season, subject to local public health authority approval and in accordance with NCAA guidelines. Each individual university will determine what will be allowed in terms of family member attendance on that basis. The conference is keeping track of attendance, although the accuracy is in question. Each team will play three home and three road games, with the possibility of hosting a fourth home game based on where each team finishes within their division, with the top seed from each division playing in the Pac-12 Title Game in Las Vegas.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, NFL Draft
A total of 65 Pac-12 players were drafted in the 2021 NFL Draft, the most of any conference that year.


2020 Pac-12 Conference football season, NFL Draft
The following list includes all Pac–12 Players who were drafted in the 2021 NFL Draft.


2020 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season
The 2020 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season is be the 21st season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on February 3, 2021, and will end on April 17.


2020 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season, Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
The season was set to begin in August 2020 and conclude in November 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pac-12 Conference postponed sports through the end of the calendar year.


2020 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season, Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
On September 22, 2020, the NCAA approved a plan to play the fall championships in the spring.


2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game
The 2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game (branded as the Pac-12 Football Championship Game presented by 76 for sponsorship reasons) was a college football game played on Friday, December 18, 2020, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, to determine the 2020 champion of the Pac-12 Conference. The game featured the North division's then second place Oregon and the South division champions USC, and is the conference's tenth championship game. Washington, the North division champion, was unable to participate due to having insufficient players available.


2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game
This game was originally to be held at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, as part of a new two-year deal. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the game was pulled from Las Vegas, and was instead hosted at the home stadium of USC.


2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, Previous season
The 2019 Pac-12 Football Championship Game featured North Division champion Oregon against South Division champion Utah in the conference's 9th edition of the game. The Ducks won, 37–15.


2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, Teams
The 2020 Pac–12 Football Championship Game featured the Oregon Ducks, then second place in the North Division, and the USC Trojans, South Division champions. Oregon and USC had met 61 times previously before this game, with USC holding a 38–21–1 advantage in the series. The two teams did not meet during the 2020 regular season.


2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, Teams, Oregon
Oregon was selected to represent the North Division after division winner Washington did not have the minimum number of scholarship players available to participate in the game due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The week before, Washington had to cancel its game against Oregon for the same reason. This marks Oregon's fourth overall appearance in the Pac-12 championship game, having won in all three of their prior appearances. The Ducks are the defending Pac-12 champions, having defeated Utah in the 2019 title game. Oregon enters the contest with a 3–2 record.


2020 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, Teams, USC
USC secured its spot in the game with its December 13 win over UCLA. This is USC's third appearance in the championship game, having last appeared the 2017 game. USC entered the game with an 5–0 record in the regular season and in Pac-12 play. The Trojans were designated as the home team, based on their better overall record.


2020 Pacific FC season
The 2020 Pacific FC season was the second in the club's history, as well as second in the Canadian Premier League. In 2019, Pacific finished 5th overall, failing to qualify for the CPL Finals.


2020 Pacific FC season
On March 20, 2020, the league announced a postponement of the start of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Pacific FC season, Transfers, In, Draft picks
Pacific FC selected the following players in the 2019 CPL–U Sports Draft on November 11, 2019. Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series
The 2020 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) was Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) playoff series to decide which Pacific League (PL) team would advance to the 2020 Japan Series. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PL decided to modify the traditional Climax Series format and eliminate the First Stage series to instead only play one modified Final Stage series: a best-of-five series, with the PL champion receiving an automatic one-win advantage over the league's runner-up. The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the league's champion, competed against runner-up Chiba Lotte Marines to determine who would advance to the 2020 Japan Series.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series
The series was played from November 14 to 15 at Fukuoka PayPay Dome. With the advantage and two consecutive come-from-behind wins, the Hawks advanced past the Marines to the Japan Series and the Hawks' Akira Nakamura was named the series' Most Valuable Player. SoftBank will compete against the Central League's (CL) regular-season champion, the Yomiuri Giants, in the Japan Series. Because of the pandemic, the CL cancelled their Climax Series altogether, instead opting to send their regular-season champion.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Background
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nippon Professional Baseball pushed back the start of the season from March 20 to June 19 and shortened it from 143 games to 120 games. To maximize the number of intraleague games that could be played, interleague play and the All-Star Series were eliminated. The First Stages of the Climax Series were originally scheduled to be played from October 24 to 26, with the Final Stages taking place between October 28 and November 2. However, with the start of the season being delayed, the series was postponed three weeks.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Background
The Pacific League (PL) also decided to eliminate the First Stage to instead only play a modified Final Stage. The league's champion and the runner-up competed in a best-of-five series, with the champion receiving an automatic one-win advantage. As with the regular season's pandemic-related change, the games in the series would end in a tie if no winner was determined after ten innings, a change from the usual 12-innings from previous seasons. The first team to win three games advanced to the Japan Series.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Background
The Central League decided to eliminate their Climax Series altogether, instead opting to sending the regular-season champion directly to the Japan Series. This marked the first time since the 2006 NPB season that a playoff series was only played in the Pacific League. For the third year in a row, Persol Holdings sponsored the naming rights for the Pacific League Climax Series, and it is officially known as the "2020 Parsol Climax Series PA". In accordance with government guidelines, attendance of the games was limited to 50% of the stadium's capacity.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Background
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks clinched the PL pennant on October 27th, securing the opportunity to host the runner-up in the Climax Series. The title was the Hawks' first since 2017. A reigning Japanese baseball dynasty, the team had finished either first- or second-place in the league in nine of the last 11 seasons, including every year since 2014, and was fighting for a chance to win their fourth straight Japan Series championship.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Background
A week before the end of the Pacific League's season, three teams were battling for second place and the Climax Series' final playoff slot. The Chiba Lotte Marines, Saitama Seibu Lions, and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles were all within 2.5 games of each other. Lotte and Seibu's second-to-last game of the season was head-to-head. The Marines' win over the Lions secured the team a second-place finish and a place in the Climax Series. It was the Marines first playoff appearance since 2016.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Background
During the regular season, the Hawks and the Marines played 24 games against each other. The Marines won the season series with a 12–11–1 record, however the Hawks won seven of the last eight games. Lotte finished the season 14 games behind the first-place SoftBank. The two teams have met in the Climax Series a total of five times, twice in the First Stage, three times in the Final Stage. Lotte won three of the five of those series, however SoftBank is 5–0 in the last two series played.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Game summaries, Game 1
In Game 1, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks' starting pitcher was Kodai Senga, the PL regular-season earned run average leader. Rookie Hisanori Yasuda hit a two-run home run off Senga in the second inning for the first runs of the series. Marines starting pitcher Manabu Mima gave up a solo home run to Yuki Yanagita in the fourth, pulling the Hawks to within one run, 2–1. Lotte made it 3–1 in the fifth after Tatsuhiro Tamura hit a double who then scored on a single by Tadahiro Ogino.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Mima was removed from the game in the sixth inning after giving up back-to-back singles and a sacrifice bunt. Marines relief pitcher Taiki Tojo then allowed a run batted in (RBI) single. With one out, Yurisbel Gracial tied the game when he scored from third base after Seiya Inoue dropped a throw to first base. The Hawks took the lead in the eighth inning. Marines reliever Hirokazu Sawamura gave up two walks before Takuya Kai drove in the winning run. Hawks pitcher Liván Moinelo, in relief of Senga, retired three straight batters in the eighth inning to earn the win, and closer Yuito Mori did the same in the ninth to earn the save.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Game summaries, Game 2
In the first inning of Game 2, the Marines quickly took the lead when Hawks starter Nao Higashihama allowed three runs. Yasuda hit a two-run double and then went on to score on a groundball from Shuhei Fukuda. The next inning, Akira Nakamura cut Lotte's lead to one run when he hit a two-run home run off of Marines starter Wei-Yin Chen. Nakamura then gave SoftBank the lead with a second two-run home run in the fourth inning. On Chen's next pitch, Nobuhiro Matsuda hit a solo home run, prompting the pitcher to be removed from the game.


2020 Pacific League Climax Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The Marines had offensive opportunities in both the fourth and fifth innings, however they weren't able to score any runs, in part because of Hawks catcher Kai throwing out a base runner attempting a steal of second base. Higashihama allowed seven hits and struck out four over four innings. Lotte came within one run in the seventh inning with an RBI groundout by Shogo Nakamura, however SoftBank answered with an RBI triple by Ukyo Shuto in the same inning. Hawks closer Mori loaded the bases in the last inning, but was able to close out the inning and earn a save. Akira Nakamura was named the series Most Valuable Player and the Hawks' win was a record-breaking 12th consecutive postseason win.


2020 Pacific hurricane season
The 2020 Pacific hurricane season was the least active Pacific hurricane season since 2011. The season was near average in terms of tropical storms, featuring a total of 17, but had a well below average number of hurricanes and major hurricanes, with only 4 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes forming including one unnamed tropical storm which was operationally classified as a tropical depression, the first such occurrence since 2001. Despite this, it featured the earliest start to a season east of 140°W on record, with Tropical Depression One-E forming on April 25.


2020 Pacific hurricane season
The season officially began on May 15 in the East Pacific Ocean, and on June 1 in the Central Pacific and they both ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Pacific basin. However, the formation of tropical cyclones is possible at any time of the year, as shown by the record-early formation of Tropical Depression One-E.


2020 Pacific hurricane season
The most significant storms of the season were Tropical Storm Amanda and Hurricane Genevieve. Amanda developed near Central America in late May and struck Guatemala, causing widespread damage in neighboring El Salvador and killing 40 people amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the latter country. Genevieve passed closely to the tip of the Baja California Peninsula in August, bringing hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall, killing six and causing an estimated $50 million in damage. Otherwise, impact from other storms was minimal.


2020 Pacific hurricane season
In late July, Hurricane Douglas made an extremely close pass to Hawaii, with its weak southern eyewall crossing Oahu, causing minor effects. The remnant moisture of Tropical Storm Fausto brought dry thunderstorms and lightning to Northern California, sparking hundreds of fires, and the remnants of Genevieve dropped heavy rainfall in Arizona and Southern California. Tropical Storm Hernan moved very near the coast of Mexico and made landfall in Baja California Sur as a tropical depression, causing an additional fatality. The final storm of the season, Tropical Storm Polo, dissipated on November 19, about 11 days before the official end of the season. Collectively, the tropical cyclones of this season caused about US$250 million in damage and 47 deaths.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal forecasts
On May 20, 2020, the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) issued its forecast for the season, predicting a total of 15–18 named storms, 8–10 hurricanes, and 4–5 major hurricanes to develop. The next day, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued their outlook, calling for a below-normal to near-normal season with 11–18 named storms, 5–10 hurricanes, 1–5 major hurricanes, and an accumulated cyclone energy index of 60% to 135% of the median. Factors they expected to reduce activity were near- or below-average sea surface temperatures across the eastern Pacific and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation remaining in the neutral phase, with the possibility of a La Niña developing.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary
Although the hurricane season in the eastern Pacific does not officially begin until May 15, and on June 1 in the central Pacific, activity this year began several weeks prior with the formation of Tropical Depression One-E on April 25. This marked the earliest formation of a tropical cyclone in the basin, surpassing 2017's Tropical Storm Adrian. Among relatively unfavorable conditions, the depression was short lived, and activity would not resume in the basin until nearly a month later with the formation of Tropical Depression Two-E near the coast of Guatemala on May 30.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary
This system would later become Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season and one of the worst natural disasters in El Salvador in around two decades. Not for nearly another month after Amanda, Tropical Depression Three-E would briefly become Tropical Storm Boris on June 25 well out to sea before weakening in the Central Pacific basin. A short-lived tropical depression would form near Baja California Sur just 2 days after Boris's dissipation and quickly weaken.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary
Moving into July, Tropical Storm Cristina formed on July 6 and slowly intensified to a peak intensity of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h), barely missing hurricane status. Activity continued as yet another tropical depression, Six-E, formed on July 13 but quickly dissipated among the unfavorable conditions unfolding in the basin. Two more tropical systems formed in mid July, Tropical Depression Seven-E and Tropical Storm Douglas. Seven-E was short lived and although it did gain tropical storm intensity, it was operationally left unnamed. Douglas strengthened into the first hurricane of the season at 15:00 UTC on July 22, marking the fourth–latest date any season had gone without a hurricane. Douglas would later strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane and brush Hawaii with rain and gusty winds.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary
A burst of activity occurred in early August, with a tropical wave south of Mexico evolving into Tropical Storm Elida on August 9, later to become the second hurricane of the season. Elida was generally short lived, but with the formation of Tropical Depression Ten-E, Tropical Storm Fausto, and Hurricane Genevieve activity continued. Genevieve later became the second major hurricane of the season before briefly effecting Baja California Sur as a minimal hurricane. Two additional tropical cyclones, Tropical Storms Hernan and Iselle, formed in late August.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary
Both were generally weak and did not make landfall, although the former brought heavy flooding and mudslides to western Mexico. Later, on September 5, the remnants of former Atlantic tropical cyclone Nana reformed into a new cyclone in the Pacific named Julio. After Julio, Karina and Lowell formed. Near the end of September, Hurricane Marie formed and rapidly intensified up to Category 4 strength before weakening out to sea, becoming the strongest storm of the season. The only October storm of the season, Norbert, lasted for 10 days. After almost a month of inactivity, Odalys formed on November 3, and dissipated three days later without affecting land. Tropical Storm Polo formed close to the end of the season, but it was also short-lived and weak.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Seasonal summary
The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for the 2020 Pacific hurricane season was 61.08 units in the Eastern Pacific and 12.7 units in the Central Pacific. The total ACE in the basin was 73.78 units. Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. It is only calculated for full advisories on specific tropical and subtropical systems reaching or exceeding wind speeds of 39 miles per hour (63 km/h).


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One-E
A disturbance developed within the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) on April 17. The disturbance moved westward within the ITCZ over the next several days,  and after developing a well-defined  center and organized convection, it was designated as Tropical Depression One-E at 06:00 UTC on April 25 about 700 nautical miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Moving northwestward, the depression retained organized deep convection until shortly after 00:00 UTC the next day. Dry air and westerly wind shear caused the depression to weaken and degenerate to a remnant low by 12:00 UTC. The remnant low turned west and opened up into a trough at 18:00 UTC on April 27.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression One-E
One-E was the earliest forming tropical cyclone in the northeastern Pacific proper (east of 140W) since the dawn of the satellite era in 1966; surpassing, at the time, Tropical Storm Adrian of 2017 by two weeks. However, 2021's Tropical Storm Andres retains the title of the earliest named storm in the basin, because One-E did not achieve tropical storm force winds and therefore was not given a name.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Amanda
A broad area of low pressure developed near an area of convection over the far eastern portion of the basin on May 27. Meanwhile, a tropical wave that had left the coast of Africa around May 18 crossed Panama into the Eastern Pacific on May 29. The wave caused the low-pressure area to become more organized and develop a well-defined circulation, and it became Tropical Depression Two-E at 18:00 UTC on May 30.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Amanda
Moving northeastward around the periphery of a large cyclonic gyre over northern Central America, the depression continued to organize and compact in size, strengthening into Tropical Storm Amanda at 06:00 UTC the next day. About four hours later, Amanda made landfall at peak intensity near Las Lisas, Guatemala. Amanda rapidly degenerated as it moved inland, with its center dissipating around 18:00 UTC. The remnants of the system moved northward into the Bay of Campeche and re-developed into the Atlantic Tropical Depression Three at 21:00 UTC on June 1, which would later become Tropical Storm Cristobal.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Amanda
In El Salvador, torrential rainfall caused significant damage along coastal cities in the country as rivers overflowed and swept away buildings. Amanda killed 14 people in El Salvador, of which at least six died due to flash flooding, and one died from a collapsed home. More than 900 homes were damaged across the country and 1,200 families were evacuated to 51 shelters across La Libertad, San Salvador, Sonsonate, and San Vicente. In the capital, San Salvador, 50 houses were destroyed and 23 vehicles fell into a sinkhole.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Amanda
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele declared a 15-day national state of emergency due to the storm. Movement restrictions in place for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic were temporarily lifted to allow people to purchase medicines, while hardware stores were allowed to open with limited capacity so people could purchase equipment for repairs.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Boris
The interaction between a tropical wave, a preexisting area of disturbed weather, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation led to the formation of a surface low late on June 23. Deep convection coalesced with this circulation over the ensuing hours, and a tropical depression developed around 06:00 UTC on June 24. The system struggled via the effects of nearby dry air and some wind shear as it moved west to west-northwest under the subtropical ridge. Nonetheless, it intensified into Tropical Storm Boris around 18:00 UTC on June 25 when deep convection was most prevalent.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Boris
A further increase in upper-level winds prevented Boris from strengthening beyond minimal tropical storm intensity, and it instead weakened to a tropical depression again twelve hours later before crossing into the central Pacific basin. All associated thunderstorm activity dissipated by June 28, and Boris degenerated to a remnant area of low pressure by 00:00 UTC that day. The post-tropical cyclone curved west-southwest and dissipated well south-southeast of the Hawaiian Islands on June 30.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Four-E
A broad area of disturbed weather, at least partially enhanced by a tropical wave, formed near the Gulf of Tehuantepec on June 25. The system paralleled the Mexican coastline and only slowly organized over the coming days, eventually meeting the criteria to be designated a tropical depression around 18:00 UTC on June 29. Despite coalescing deeper convection near the center at the time of formation, Tropical Depression Four-E failed to attain winds greater than 30 mph (45 km/h) as it encountered hostile southwesterly wind shear and colder ocean waters. Instead, the system degenerated to a remnant area of low pressure by 18:00 UTC on June 30. The low turned north and dissipated well south of Baja California on July 1.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Cristina
A tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa on June 20 and progressed west across the Atlantic and Caribbean. Oppressive dry air from the Saharan Air Layer prevented any development during this period. Crossing Central America on July 3, the wave interacted with a monsoon trough and deep convection blossomed and gradually organized. This system developed a defined surface low on July 6 and was classified as a tropical depression about 435 mi (705 km) south of Acapulco, Mexico.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Cristina
Steered along a northwest trajectory by a mid-level ridge, the depression traversed a region of warm water, moist mid-level air, and moderate wind shear; these factors enabled slow intensification. After strengthening into Tropical Storm Cristina on July 7, the NHC anticipated significant intensification as wind shear was forecast to decrease. However, the wind shear remained in place and Cristina did not organize as fast as expected. Cristina reached its peak intensity late on July 10 with winds of 70 mph (110 km/h) and a pressure of 993 mbar (hPa; 29.33 inHg) as it passed west of Socorro Island.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Cristina
Thereafter, the cyclone turned west along the south side of the subtropical ridge. Cristina gradually spun down as sea surface temperatures decreased and the surrounding environment became more stable. The storm degraded into a remnant low on July 12 and degenerated into a trough on July 15 about halfway between Hawaii and the Baja California Peninsula.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Six-E
A tropical wave, emerging off Africa on July 2, fractured over the western Atlantic several days later. The southern wave axis continued into the eastern Pacific, where its interaction with the monsoon trough resulted in the formation of an area of low pressure. This low failed to organize for a few days as it was hindered by strong northeasterly wind shear, and indeed it briefly opened up into a trough. On July 13, a burst of extremely deep convection led to the redevelopment of a new circulation, and the system organized into a tropical depression around 12:00 UTC that day. As the cyclone moved west-northwest away from Mexico, its associated convection waned, preventing the system from intensifying to a tropical storm. Instead, Tropical Depression Six-E dissipated into an open trough once again around 18:00 UTC on July 14.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven-E
At 12:00 UTC on July 15, the NHC began to track a tropical wave moving across the southern portion of the basin. The wave spawned an area of low pressure further west at 12:00 UTC on July 19 and gradually organized, forming into Tropical Depression Seven-E at 00:00 UTC on July 20. Forming over a rather hostile environment, a dry environment, and cool sea surface temperatures (SSTs) operationally appeared to prevent the depression from strengthening.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven-E
However, post-storm analysis revealed that an improvement in central convection had occurred and a relatively strong band had formed on the northeast side of the system. That coupled with an ASCAT pass which revealed sustained winds of 39 mph (63 km/h) on the south side indicated the depression had intensified to tropical storm strength at 12:00 UTC on July 20.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Seven-E
However, the system became devoid of all deep convection due to cold sea surface temperatures despite maintaining its strength and by 06:00 UTC on July 21, Seven-E was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone without being named due to continued unfavorable conditions. The low then spun down and dissipated by 00:00 UTC on July 22.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Douglas
A tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa over the Atlantic Ocean on July 8 and traveled west. Crossing South and Central America from July 12–15, the system later entered the Eastern Pacific basin. Over the next five days, convection gradually organized around a consolidating surface low and a tropical depression developed on July 20 about 805 mi (1,295 km) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California Sur. Traveling along the south side of a mid-level ridge, the system steadily organized within a favorable environment and became a tropical storm later that day.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Douglas
Intensification was briefly halted by intrusions of dry air, but once this abated Douglas underwent rapid intensification. The system became a hurricane late on July 22 and reached its peak strength as a Category 4 hurricane early on July 24; maximum sustained winds were estimated at 130 mph (215 km/h) and its central pressure fell to 954 mbar (hPa; 28.17 inHg). Shortly thereafter, the hurricane crossed into the Central Pacific basin on a course toward Hawaii. Lower sea surface temperatures led to gradual weakening of the hurricane as it approached the state.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Douglas
On July 27, the center of Douglas passed just 60 mi (95 km) north of the main Hawaiian Islands; despite its proximity, effects were negligible. Increasing wind shear caused Douglas to rapidly unfold on July 28, resulting in its degradation to a tropical storm and ultimately its dissipation later that day well to the southeast of Midway Atoll.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Elida
A tropical wave emerged off Africa on July 26 and split over the Caribbean several days later, with the southern portion of the wave continuing into the eastern Pacific. A small low developed in association with this wave, eventually organizing into a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC on August 8. Twelve hours later, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Elida while paralleling the coastline of Mexico. Owing to favorable environmental conditions, Elida intensified steadily on August 9 and then rapidly the following day, attaining hurricane strength around 18:00 UTC on August 10.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Elida
An eye developed within the storm's compact and symmetrical central dense overcast, and Elida reached peak winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) by 12:00 UTC the next morning. Ultimately, the influence of dry air and cooler waters caused the storm to swiftly weaken, and it degenerated to a remnant area of low pressure by 00:00 UTC on August 13 while positioned west of Baja California Sur. The low turned north before opening up into a trough a little over 24 hours later.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Ten-E
On August 10, an area of disturbed tropical weather formed about 1,500 miles west-southwest of Baja California, slowly moving westward, and forming a low-pressure area the next day. This system gradually organized in favorable conditions, and at 09:00 UTC on August 13, the system developed into a tropical depression, being designated Ten-E. The system remained relatively unchanged for the next three days as it was affected by moderately strong shear that inhibited intensification but allowed the system to remain tropical. The depression finally became post-tropical at 21:00 UTC on August 16. On August 21, Ten-E again entered a favorable environment for development as its remnants continued southwest, and was briefly monitored by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center for possible redevelopment. Despite this, the storm failed to regenerate and it was last mentioned on August 23.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Fausto
An elongated region of low pressure over the central portion of the basin spawned 2 areas of disturbed weather between the Revillagigedo Islands on August 14. The southwestern portion of this trough slowly moved northwards and became more organized while the northeastern section struggled to become more defined over the day. Despite remaining in favorable conditions, the northeastern disturbance failed to develop and was subsequently absorbed into the southwestern disturbance. This system quickly became sufficiently organized enough to be declared a tropical depression by 03:00 UTC on August 16.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Fausto
Initially not forecast to become a tropical storm, the depression quickly developed a central region of thunderstorms and satellite estimates further indicated the storm had become Tropical Storm Fausto just 12 hours later. However, Fausto quickly succumbed to cooling sea surface temperatures and thunderstorm activity near the center began to decrease. Fausto then weakened to a tropical depression at 03:00 UTC August 17 as it continued northwest, moving over cooler water. Fausto degenerated into a remnant low later that day.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Fausto
A large plume of moisture brought northwards by Fausto generated massive thunderstorms across a large portion of Northern California, beginning on August 16. These storms produced mostly dry lightning with little to no rain, with almost 11,000 lightning strikes occurring in the state between August 16 and 17. The lightning from these storms sparked 367 fires across the state, several of which became very large in a short period of time, threatening thousands of structures and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. The massive SCU Lightning Complex, August Complex, CZU Lightning Complex, and North Complex fires were connected to the thunderstorms associated with Fausto.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Genevieve
On August 10, a disturbance formed west of Central America and began to be monitored by the NHC. On August 13, this disturbance developed into a trough of low pressure southwest of Mexico. The disturbance gradually organized, and on August 16, the system became a tropical depression, receiving the designation Twelve-E at 15:00 UTC. The depression rapidly strengthened and became a tropical storm 6 hours later at 21:00 UTC, receiving the name Genevieve. Genevieve continued to strengthen rapidly overnight and became a hurricane on August 17.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Genevieve
Genevieve continued to intensify quickly, and on the next day, at 09:00 UTC, Genevieve explosively intensified into a Category 3 major hurricane. Three hours later, Genevieve intensified further into a Category 4 hurricane, and formed a very well-defined and clear eye. Afterward, Genevieve gradually began to weaken, dropping to Category 3 status by 03:00 UTC on August 19, possibly due to encountering colder water from the cold wake left behind by Hurricane Elida.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Genevieve
Genevieve continued a gradual weakening trend for the next several hours, but later that day, data from an NHC Reconnaissance Flight indicated that Genevieve was rapidly weakening, with the storm dropping to Category 1 status by 21:00 UTC that day. On August 20, Genevieve turned northwestward and passed very close to Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, and the system weakened further into a tropical storm at 18:00 UTC. By 21:00 UTC on August 21, Genevieve had degenerated into a post-tropical cyclone, after having no deep convection for 12 hours.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Genevieve
Numerous tropical cyclone watches and warnings were issued for parts of Baja California beginning on August 17. A total of 6 people died in storm-related incidents across Mexico.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hernan
On August 17, the NHC began tracking a disturbance off the west coast of Mexico. Late on August 20, this disturbance formed a broad area of low pressure just southwest of extreme southwestern Mexico. Over the course of the next five days, the system slowly organized, and at 09:00 UTC on August 26, it developed into Tropical Depression Thirteen-E. At 21:00 UTC, the system strengthened into a tropical storm, receiving the name Hernan. A poorly organized storm, the system struggled to intensify in the high-shear environment within a larger scale region of monsoonal rotation.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hernan
Despite unfavorable conditions, scatterometer data found Hernan had slightly intensified to 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) by 03:00 UTC on August 27. Hernan's peak intensity proved to be short lived as it turned west and moved into the Gulf of California, degenerating into a remnant low over Baja California Sur at 15:00 UTC, August 28.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hernan
In Mexico, 97,000 customers lost electricity. Hernan dropped precipitation amounts of 5-9 inches (127–228 mm) of rainfall from Michoacán to Nayarit, causing flash flooding and mudslides in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Colima. It prompted many families to flee their homes. At least 400 people were evacuated in Jalisco, and 18 people stuck on their roof in the state had to be rescued. In Cihuatlán, roughly 365 residents evacuated into shelters.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hernan
A sinkhole shut down a portion of Mexican Federal Highway 80 between Santa Cruz and San Patricio, a mudslide closed down another part of the freeway near Lázaro Cárdenas. The Cuixmala River overflowed its banks, causing parts of Mexican Federal Highway 200 to shut down. The town of La Manzanilla was mostly inundated by floodwaters which caused a bridge near the town to collapse. Several schools were damaged by Hernan in the state of Colima. In Tamala, a parota tree fell on a road, blocking traffic. In Manzanillo, some homes and streets were damaged and covered with mud. In Nayarit, a mudslide occurred on a hill behind a populated neighborhood in Xalisco, however, no damage has been reported from this incident. Despite Hernan weakening into a tropical depression before landfall in Baja California Sur, local weather services in the area advised residents to take extreme precautions.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Iselle
Late on August 24, a small low pressure system developed several hundred miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, near the disturbance that would later become Tropical Storm Hernan. As environmental conditions for development became more favorable, the circulation of the system gradually became better defined, and the system developed into Tropical Depression Fourteen-E at 15:00 UTC on August 26 over the open Pacific Ocean. The cyclone reached tropical storm strength 6 hours later at 21:00 UTC, receiving the name Iselle.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Iselle
Similarly to Tropical Storm Hernan, Iselle was trapped within a large-scale region of rotation and struggled to organize due to wind shear. However, despite the moderate to strong wind shear, Iselle strengthened to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) over the next 12 hours while moving slowly northeastward. Iselle continued to intensify and at 15:00 UTC on August 28, Iselle attained its peak intensity of maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 997 mbar. Iselle then made a very close pass to Clarion Island, where tropical-storm force winds were reported, before weakening thereafter. Iselle became post-tropical later on August 30 as it headed north, near the Baja California Peninsula.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Julio
On September 4, the mid-level remnants of Hurricane Nana from the North Atlantic emerged over the Gulf of Tehuantepec and subsequently began to organize, developing a new surface low. By September 5, well-defined and compact surface circulation developed with the surface low, and eventually, the system's thunderstorm activity became organized enough for the system to be dubbed Tropical Storm Julio later that day, as the storm was already producing gale-force winds. A very small cyclone with tropical-storm force winds only extending 35 miles (56 km) from the center, Julio slowly intensified due to a favorable environment. Switching to a quick pace west-northwestward, the storm quickly weakened on September 6 despite forecasts of strengthening. Julio later opened up into a trough of low pressure and became a post-tropical low on 09:00 UTC, September 7.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Karina
On September 9, the NHC began monitoring an area of disturbed weather to the south of Mexico. Early the next day, a broad area of low pressure formed within the system as it continued to produce disturbed weather. By 03:00 UTC on September 13, the disturbance became organized enough to be designated as a tropical depression. Just six hours later, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Karina while located 455 miles southwest of Baja California. Karina slowly strengthened over the next couple of days, reaching its peak intensity around 09:00 UTC on September 15. Karina then weakened below tropical storm status late on September 16 before degenerating into a post-tropical cyclone by 09:00 UTC the next day.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Lowell
On September 19, the NHC began monitoring an area of disturbed weather south of Mexico for potential tropical cyclogenesis. At 18:00 UTC on September 20, the disturbance gained sufficient organization to be designated a tropical depression. 24 hours later, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Lowell. Slowly strengthening, Lowell reached its peak intensity at 06:00 UTC on September 23 with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and a barometric pressure of 1001 millibars. Lowell remained poorly organized as it passed close to Clarion Island later that day. Lowell gradually weakened once turning westward on September 24 as it moved into cooler waters and vertical wind shear increased. At 18:00 UTC on September 25, Lowell degenerated into a post-tropical cyclone after lacking deep convection for several hours.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Marie
On September 24, the NHC first noted the possibity of tropical cyclogenesis offshore Mexico. Three days later, an area of low pressure formed. Over the next two days, the disturbance rapidly organized as it moved west-northwestward, and at 09:00 UTC on September 29, the system became sufficiently organized to be classified as Tropical Depression Eighteen-E. Just 12 hours later, the depression became Tropical Storm Marie. On September 30, Marie underwent rapid intensification and became a hurricane by 21:00 UTC. Further intensification occurred and 12 hours later, Marie became a Category 2 hurricane.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Marie
Continuing to intensify, Marie intensified to a Category 3 major hurricane at 03:00 UTC on October 2 before it reached its peak strength as a Category 4 hurricane six hours later with winds of 140 mph (220 km/h) and a pressure of 945 mb (hPa; 27.97 inHg)  Marie maintained its strength for a day or so before it began to rapidly weaken due to cooler waters and dry air intrusion. It dropped below major hurricane status at 09:00 UTC on October 4 and below hurricane status at 03:00 UTC on October 5.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Marie
It center became exposed, although the weakening trend slowed as convection continued to fire on its northeast side. After a brief resurgence late on October 5, Marie convection's became too weak and too far from its center for it to remain a tropical cyclone, so it was downgraded to a remnant low at 03:00 UTC on October 7.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Norbert
Early on September 30, the NHC began noting the possibility of an area of low pressure forming southwest of Mexico. The area of low pressure finally formed early on October 4 and quickly organized into a tropical depression by 21:00 UTC the next day. At 09:00 UTC on October 6, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Norbert. After spending 36 hours at tropical storm strength, Nobert weakened back into a tropical depression at 21:00 UTC on October 7. Norbert maintained its status as a tropical depression until it degenerated into a remnant low early on October 10.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Norbert
After Norbert degenerated into a remnant low, the NHC began tracking the low for possible redevelopment, as upper-level winds were expected to become more favorable. The remnants began showing signs of organization over the next two days. On October 13, the low began to quickly organize, and at 21:00 UTC that day, the NHC declared that Norbert had regenerated into a tropical depression several hundred miles southwest of the Baja California peninsula. Soon afterwards, it unexpectedly strengthened into a tropical storm again at 03:00 UTC on October 14. However, this restrengthening was short-lived, as Norbert began weakening again and became a tropical depression 18 hours later. It eventually became post-tropical yet again at 09:00 UTC on October 15 due to unfavorable conditions.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Odalys
A tropical wave passed over Central America and entered the Eastern Pacific basin on October 29. Its associated thunderstorm activity remained relatively disorganized until November 1, when a broad area of low pressure developed within the system. Spiral rainbands became more pronounced the next day, and by November 3 the system was producing tropical-storm-force winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). At 18:00 UTC, the NHC determined the system was sufficiently organized to be designated Tropical Storm Odalys, while it was centered about 730 mi (1,175 km) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Odalys
Odalys intensified somewhat over the next days while moving west-northwest despite a generally hostile environment, with strong wind shear and dry air impinging on the system. At 00:00 UTC on November 5, Odalys reached its peak intensity with winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a central pressure of 1000 mbar (hPa; 29.53 inHg). Wind shear increased further shortly afterwards, causing Odalys to weaken quickly and eventually become a post-tropical cyclone at 18:00 UTC on November 5 as it became devoid of significant thunderstorm activity. The shallow remnants of Odalys turned southwest under the influence of a strong high-pressure area and dissipated by November 8.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Polo
The season's final storm developed from an area of convection within the monsoon trough that may have been enhanced by a Gulf of Tehuantepec gap wind event over preceding days. On November 14, a broad area of low pressure formed. Both the low and associated thunderstorm activity gained cohesion over the coming days, resulting in the formation of a tropical depression around 18:00 UTC on November 17 to the southwest of Baja California Sur. The depression intensified into Tropical Storm Polo six hours later and reached peak winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) the following morning.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Polo
As the system moved west-northwest, it encountered an increasingly hostile environment, and Polo weakened to a tropical depression early on November 19. By 18:00 UTC that day, the cyclone degenerated to a remnant area of low pressure that moved west and then west-southwest prior to dissipating into an open trough on November 21.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names
The following names will be used for named storms that form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean during 2020. The World Meteorological Organization retired no names during the joint 42nd and 43rd Sessions of the RA IV Hurricane Committee in the spring of 2021 (in concurrence with any names from the 2019 season). Therefore, this list will be used again in the 2026 season. This is the same list used in the 2014 season, with the exception of the name Odalys, which replaced Odile. The name Odalys was used for the first time this year.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names
For storms that form in the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility, encompassing the area between 140 degrees west and the International Date Line, all names are used in a series of four rotating lists. The next four names that were slated for use in 2020 are shown below. However, none of them were used.


2020 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects
This is a table of all the storms and that have formed in the 2020 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s), denoted in parentheses, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a tropical wave, or a low, and all the damage figures are in 2020 USD.


2020 Pacific typhoon season
The 2020 Pacific typhoon season was a slightly-below average season in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in which 23 tropical storms and 10 typhoons formed in the western Pacific Ocean. It was also the fifth-latest start in the basin on record, slightly behind 1973, and was the first to start that late since 2016. The first half of the season was unusually inactive, with only four systems, two named storms and one typhoon at the end of July.


2020 Pacific typhoon season
Additionally, the JTWC recorded no tropical cyclone development in the month of July, the first such occurrence since reliable records began. The season's first named tropical cyclone, Vongfong, developed on May 8, while the season's last named tropical cyclone, Krovanh, dissipated on December 24. However, the season's last system was an unnamed tropical depression which dissipated on December 29. The 2020 Pacific typhoon season was less active than the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which has only happened twice before: in 2005 and 2010.


2020 Pacific typhoon season
The season's first named storm, Vongfong (Ambo), developed east of Mindanao and rapidly intensified to become a Category 3 typhoon at peak intensity, undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle and made landfall on Samar Island, causing US$50 million damage to the Philippines, while in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In August, Typhoon Hagupit and Severe Tropical Storm Mekkhala struck Eastern China while Typhoons Bavi, Maysak, and Haishen struck the Korean Peninsula in a span of only two weeks, with Haishen subsequently becoming the second strongest typhoon of the season.


2020 Pacific typhoon season
In October and November, a slew of tropical disturbances and cyclones hit Central Vietnam triggering severe flooding and killing more than 270 people. It then hit Cambodia causing more severe flooding and affecting tens of thousands of homes and over 180,000 hectares of farms. 44 deaths were confirmed in that nation. Later that month, Typhoon Saudel formed, hitting the Philippines. By the end of October, Typhoon Goni became the strongest typhoon of the season, and the world's strongest tropical cyclone in 2020 only behind Cyclone Yasa.


2020 Pacific typhoon season
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator between 100°E and 180th meridian. Within the northwestern Pacific Ocean, there are two separate agencies that assign names to tropical cyclones which can often result in a cyclone having two names.


2020 Pacific typhoon season
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) will name a tropical cyclone should it be judged to have 10-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph) anywhere in the basin, whilst the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) assigns names to tropical cyclones which move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N–25°N regardless of whether or not a tropical cyclone has already been given a name by the JMA. Tropical depressions that are monitored by the United States' Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) are given a number with a "W" suffix.


2020 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts
During the year several national meteorological services and scientific agencies forecast how many tropical cyclones, tropical storms, and typhoons will form during a season and/or how many tropical cyclones will affect a particular country. These agencies include the Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) Consortium of University College London, PAGASA and Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. The first forecast for the year was released by PAGASA on January 22 predicting the first half of 2020, within its monthly seasonal climate outlook.


2020 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts
The PAGASA predicts that only 0–4 tropical cyclones are expected to form or enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility between January and March, while 5–8 tropical cyclones are expected to form between April and June. This was due to the fact that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation was seeing neutral conditions across the Pacific, and could persist until midyear. On May 21, the TSR issued their extended-range forecast for 2020, forecasting tropical activity below the average normal, with 26 tropical storms, 15 typhoons and 8 intense typhoons. These numbers were supported by the current values from the Indian Ocean Dipole, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index and the sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.75 region, leading to a stronger than normal trade windspeed throughout much of the Western Pacific.


2020 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts
On June 24, the PAGASA issued a climate forecast, predicting the number of tropical cyclones for the second half of the season. They predicted that 6–10 tropical cyclones are expected to form between the months of July and September, while 4–7 tropical cyclones are expected to form between the months of October and December. On July 9, TSR issued their forecast for the season, predicting a well-below average season with 26 named storms, 14 typhoons and only 7 intense typhoons.


2020 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal forecasts
On August 6, TSR issued their third and final forecast for the season, lowering their numbers to 21 named storms, 13 typhoons and 5 intense typhoons. They mentioned that the 2020 season is expected to be one of the "least active typhoon seasons on record", with a predicted ACE index barely half of the normal and a 96% probability of being a below-average season.