The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season began anomalously early, with the formation of Subtropical Storm Alex on January 12th, of which was the earliest storm of this category ever recorded, and therefore was the earliest named storm in modern times, beating the record of April 19th set by Subtropical Storm Ana in the 2003 season. On May 27th, the second earliest named storm, Bonnie, developed, missing the record by 18 hours to a storm in 1887, which developed 18 hours earlier than Bonnie did. The storm went on to make landfall in North Carolina, and weakened to a remnant circulation on May 29th, before regenerating on June 2nd, and regaining tropical storm status on June 3rd as it moved out to sea. The system later dissipated on June 5th, on the same advisory as Tropical Depression Three was c