The full list of 2019's named storms:

1. Andrea

• Formed: May 20
• Dissipated: May 22
• Location: South of Bermuda
• Highest classification: Subtropical storm
• Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph
• Andrea formed before the official beginning of hurricane season, making 2019 the fifth consecutive year in which a named tropical storm has formed before June 1, per the Washington Post.

2. Barry

• Formed: July 11
• Dissipated: July 19
• Location: Southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi
• Highest classification: Hurricane
• Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph

3. Chantal

• Formed: August 20
• Dissipated: August 23
• Location: 455 miles south of Newfoundland
• Highest classification: Tropical storm
• Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph

4. Dorian

• Formed: August 24
• Dissipated: September 8
• Location: Southeastern U.S., Northwestern Bahamas
• Highest classification: Category 5 hurricane
• Maximum sustained winds: 185 mph
• First major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian is tied with a 1935 hurricane as the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record.
• Dorian caused the most devastation in the Bahamas, killing at least 43 people and leaving many missing.

5. Erin

• Formed: August 26
• Dissipated: August 29
• Location: Midway between Bermuda and southeast U.S.
• Highest classification: Tropical storm
• Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph

6. Fernand

• Formed: September 3
• Dissipated: September 4
• Location: Northeastern coast of Mexico
• Highest classification: Tropical storm
• Maximum sustained winds: 50 mph
• Fernand made landfall along the coast of northeastern Mexico on Sept. 4 around 11:15 AM CDT about 35 miles north of La Pesca with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, per the NHC.

7. Gabrielle

• Formed: September 3
• Dissipated: Expected to dissipate by Sept. 12
• Location: Eastern tropical Atlantic (moved northwest)
• Highest classification: Extratropical cyclone
• Maximum sustained winds: 65 mph

8. Humberto

9. Imelda

10. Jerry

11. Karen

12. Lorenzo

13. Melissa

14. Nestor

15. Olga

16. Pablo

17. Rebekah

18. Sebastien

19. Tanya

20. Van

21. Wendy

Be smart: Names are given to tropical storms when they have sustained wind speeds higher than 39 mph. Once a storm reaches sustained winds of 74 mph or higher, it's considered a hurricane, and it maintains the same name it was given when it became a tropical storm.

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Key facts about Amy Klobuchar:

• Current position: Senator from Minnesota — 12 years served
• Age: 58
• Born: Plymouth, Minnesota
• Undergraduate: Yale University
• Date candidacy announced: Feb. 10, 2019
• % of votes in line with Trump, per FiveThirtyEight: 30.8%
• Previous roles: Hennepin County attorney, corporate lawyer

Her stance on key issues:

• Infrastructure: Introduced a $1 trillion policy rollout in March that would use federal funds and tax subsidies to update U.S. infrastructure.
• Health care: One of 2 Democratic candidates who signed a letter backing Medicare Advantage, an alternative to traditional Medicare.
• Mental health: Released a $100 billion plan to combat mental health problems and substance abuse over the next decade, focused on prevention, treatment and recovery. She wants a chunk of the money to come from opioid manufacturers for their role in the national epidemic.
• Climate change: Backs the Green New Deal. Wants to re-enter Paris climate accord, achieve 100% net zero emissions by 2050, end fossil fuel subsidies and create jobs with heartland workers in mind.
• Criminal justice: Supported the bipartisan First Step Act, a reform of the federal prison system, in the Senate.
• Drug pricing: Urged the FTC to crack down on "pay-for-delay" pharmaceutical deals.
• Sexual harassment: Successfully pushed for legislation mandating sexual harassment training in the Senate.
• Data privacy: Sponsored a bill that proposed regulations for Facebook's data practices. She was the lead sponsor of legislation that would regulate online political ads.
• Opioids: Co-sponsored a bill that would impose a one-cent tax for each milligram of opioids in a pain pill. The funds for the tax would be used for substance abuse treatment.
• Immigration: Wants legislative reform to protect DACA and TPS recipients.
• Gun control: Wants universal background checks, to close gun show loopholes and to ban assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines.
• Education: Released a plan to increase federal funding for public schools if a school's state:
• Increases teacher pay.
• Recommends how to improve school services for working families.
• Prioritizes "workforce readiness" in high school curriculums.
• Creates a way for federal funds to be used for construction and repairs in school buildings.

Agriculture: Wants to raise the debt cap on farm bankruptcies and increase access to federal loan programs.

Key criticisms:

• Staff treatment: Multiple media outlets have detailed Klobuchar's alleged history of emotionally abusive treatment of her staff.
• Pragmatism: Hasn't embraced policies like Medicare for All and free college as many of her fellow 2020 Democratic hopefuls.

1 fun thing:

• According to a Vogue profile, "[s]he loves to brag that when she first ran for Senate, no one would take her calls, so she raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends."

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Key facts about Julián Castro:

• Current position: n/a
• Age: 44
• Born: San Antonio
• Undergraduate: Stanford University
• Date candidacy announced: Jan. 12, 2019
• Previous roles: Obama's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Mayor of San Antonio, member of San Antonio City Council

Julián Castro's stance on key issues:

• Housing: Launched a plan in June to create more affordable housing and end homelessness.
• Medicare for All: Supports it. Says the U.S. should "be the healthiest nation," per the Hill.
• Education: Released a plan that would create a universal pre-K program and create tuition-free public colleges, community colleges, technical and vocational programs. Pre-K would be funded by a grant program to state and local governments.
• Economic inequality: Proposed an "inherited wealth" tax in August that would "raise the capital gains rate to match the marginal income tax rate for the wealthy." The plan includes giving a $3,000 earned income tax credit to families "per child for every family of modest means."
• Would raise the capital gains rate to 40% for people who earn $400,000+ a year.
• Immigration: Would reverse Trump policies such as the Muslim ban, spending on a southern border wall and cuts to refugee programs in his extensive immigration policy.
• Proposed a 21st Century Marshall Plan for Central America to focus on stabilizing the countries with the largest number of migrants coming to the U.S.
• Wants to split ICE in half to keep "national security functions such as human and drug trafficking and anti-terrorism investigations within the Department of Homeland Security."
• Plans to overhaul the pathway to citizenship for immigrants, especially for DACA recipients.
• Abortion: "I believe in a woman's right to choose, it is an issue of reproductive freedom and justice," he said in April.
• Law enforcement: Proposed a police reform plan to limit deadly force, end stop-and-frisk and demilitarize police.
• Indigenous peoples: Wants a White House Council on Indigenous Communities and advisory committees for Cabinet-level agencies.
• Animal welfare: Would seek to strengthen the Endangered Species Act, which has been weakened by the Trump administration.
• Climate change: Focuses on environmental racism. To stop extraction of fossil fuels on public lands and end all taxpayer subsidies of fossil fuel production. Achieve net-zero emissions by 2045.

Key criticism:

• As HUD secretary, Castro faced criticism from a group of progressives — many of whom supported then-2016 candidate Bernie Sanders — over his handling of mortgage sales, Politico reported at the time.

1 fun thing about Julián Castro:

• He is 1 minute older than his identical twin brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex).

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