User blog comment:OWEN2011/Tropical Activity: 7-31-11/@comment-2239664-20110801181017

If you're looking for a season which broke all early-season records for activity, get a load of the 1985 season Andrew. We had set a record for every earliest named storm in 1985 starting with Hilda and up until Vivian. The record for earliest 1st is a tie with one-e of 1996 and Alma of 1990, storm 2's earliest date was Boris in 1984, also one of the longest-lasting hurricanes on record in the EPac, Connie of 1974 is the earliest 3rd name(June 8), Dolores of 1974 did it on June 14, Elida of 1990 did it on June 26, Fausto of 1984 did it on July 3rd, Genevive of 1984 made it on the 7th, and everything from H to V in 1985 was a record-earliest storm; see the list of Pacific hurricane records on Wikipedia for more info. 1985 also had the lastest major and first X named storm in the history of the EPac (Xina). But even though we are far behind 1992 in numbers, the EPac is having a real hurricane party. At this rate, all of the EPac's storms in 2011 will be hurricanes.