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At a Glance Chris became the second hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season in early July.

This second hurricane of the season came much earlier than average, by over a month.

Chris generated high surf and rip currents along much of the U.S. East Coast.

Parts of Atlantic Canada took a final brush from Chris as it became a post-tropical cyclone.

Hurricane Chris developed over the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina, while sitting in place for awhile, then accelerated into the north Atlantic Ocean, brushing Atlantic Canada with wind and rain as it became a post-tropical cyclone in mid-July.

First classified as Tropical Depression Three on July 6, the system earned the name Tropical Storm Chris early on July 8, over a month ahead of the average pace of the third named storm.

Trapped by upper level high pressure, Chris essentially sat in place a few hundred miles off the North Carolina coast for just under four days' time, before finally becoming a hurricane as it began to accelerate northeast on July 10.

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The large majority of Chris' rain remained offshore, however, Chris sent swells to the East Coast, producing dangerous rip currents from Georgia to New England .

Chris then attained Category 2 status the evening of July 10, the first Category 2 hurricane to form so far north this early in the hurricane season since 1906, according to Colorado State University tropical scientist, Dr. Phil Klotzbach.

A southward dip in the jet stream over the northeastern U.S. helped accelerate Chris farther out to sea away from the U.S. East Coast.

Given this jet stream interaction pushing Chris over sharply lower ocean heat content, Chris lost its tropical characteristics on July 12 as it was spreading rain and wind into the coast of eastern Nova Scotia and southern Newfoundland.

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History of the Name 'Chris'

This is the first tropical cyclone with the name of "Chris" to form in July.

The most recent Chris was Hurricane Chris in 2012, which was an unusual storm in that it was only the second hurricane to form in June as far north as it did – 41 degrees latitude.

The name Chris was also used four times for storms that developed in August, in 2006, 2000, 1994 and 1988.

In 2006, Tropical Storm Chris brought heavy rainfall to the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and Hispañiola, and in 1988, Tropical Storm Chris made landfall near Savannah, Georgia, after impacting the northeastern Caribbean.

In 1982, Tropical Storm Chris developed in the Gulf of Mexico in September and brought flooding as far north as Tennessee and Kentucky.

Chris was also used once in the western Pacific, in August 1948, for a tropical cyclone that did not make landfall.

The name Chris was also used for three storms near Australia in 1982, 1991 and 2002. Cyclone Chris in 2002 rapidly intensified and made landfall east-northeast of Port Hedland in western Australia. Significant damage was reported in some areas, with extensive cattle loss and windmill damage .