It’s now safe to say this year’s hurricane season did not turn out as initially forecast.

Before the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season, AccuWeather said the conditions would be "super-charged" and "potentially explosive."

Now that the season is nearly over, the global weather forecaster is among the first to call it: there will likely be no U.S. hurricane landfalls.

“The U.S. benefited from a combination of unique atmospheric conditions, the timing of cold fronts pushing across the East Coast and a lot of luck to make it through the peak of the season without a single hurricane landfall," Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather 's chief meteorologist, said.

Chantall made landfall this year in Texas, but it wasn’t a hurricane. The weak tropical storm quickly dissipated.

If no additional storms develop, this season will be nearly average.

All three major forecasting institutions — AccuWeather, Colorado State University, and the National Weather Service overpredicted total storm counts before the season, although all three correctly anticipated above-normal, major hurricane activity.

This season produced three powerful Category 5 storms: Erin, Humberto, and Melissa. Only the 2005 season saw more, with four.

AccuWeather’s super-charged pre-season prediction came true with Hurricane Melissa, with sustained winds of an incredible 185 miles per hour, it was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Jamaica since record-keeping began.

Hurricane season officially ends on November 30th. 

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