The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was described as powerful and unique.

Hurricane Melissa acted like a "30-mile wide top-end tornado."

New this year was the use of AI in making hurricane forecasts.

Powerful.

Unique.

And who can forget a hurricane that looked like a "30-mile wide top-end tornado?" Hurricane Melissa's 252-mph wind gust was the highest wind speed ever recorded by dropsonde .

Those generally aren't words Florida residents want to hear when it come to hurricane season.

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Of course, there were some good things about the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and high among them were no hurricane landfalls in the United States , for the first time since 2015, and not ev

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