AI-assisted summary

Despite a quiet start and a lull during the peak, the season produced three Category 5 hurricanes.

Most storms were steered away from the continental U.S., but Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica as one of the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricanes in history.

Only one tropical storm, Chantal, made landfall in the United States, causing significant flood damage in the Carolinas.

Reality: in 2025, it was not very realistic.

In a year when AI images of ALF dunking a basketball through Saturn’s rings overtook podcasts rating hot sauce as the most valuable economic sector, perhaps it was inevitable that the weather would follow the bots, the stock market, and the rest of us into post-reality fever dreams.

And, indeed, this was a downright strange hurricane season,

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