A lack of bad weather isn’t always a good thing.
It looks like the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is wrapping up in quiet fashion—aside from Hurricane Melissa, which caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica before impacting the surrounding area—without any U.S. landfalls.
There are several factors that influenced the tame season, including a weaker Bermuda High farther east, dips in the jet stream over the eastern half of the nation, a rare interaction between two hurricanes, dry air and disruptive wind shear, which helped prevent hurricanes from making landfall along the Atlantic or Gulf coasts this