2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends Sun.
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Atlantic hurricane season ends with record-breaking Category 5 storms, but no US landfalls
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially concluded Sunday, marking a year that produced 13 named storms, 5 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes — but none of those storms made landfall in the U.S.
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be consequential, even though no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S for the first time since 2015.
Hurricane Melissa flooded southwestern Haiti before slamming into Jamaica as a Cat 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 mph and stronger gusts.
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season started with forecasts calling for an “above-normal” year, thanks to warm Atlantic waters and atmospheric patterns that usually fuel tropical development. But instead of producing a huge number of storms,
The previous fastest wind gust recorded by a dropsonde was in 2010, when Typhoon Megi unleashed a 248 mile per hour blast while over the western Pacific Ocean. During Hurricane Katrina, researchers thought they had recorded an even stronger gust, but the data had substantial issues, the NSF NCAR said.
Malachi Toney continues to rewrite the Miami Hurricanes' record book. With his 5-yard reception in the third quarter of No. 12 Hurricanes' regular-season finale at the No. 22 Pittsburgh Panthers on Saturday, Toney has surpassed Ahmmon Richards' school record for most receiving yards by a freshman.