BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Hurricane season ended Sunday with no storms threatening the Mississippi Gulf Coast, marking the first time in 10 years the United States has not had a landfalling hurricane.

The last time the U.S. went without a hurricane making landfall was 2015. Since 2016, the country has experienced an active period of landfalling tropical systems.

“The Gulf is always warm enough as far as water temperatures go for producing tropical systems, but the wind shear and the steering patterns really just kept systems from really getting developed in the Gulf,” WLOX Chief Meteorologist Eric Jeansonne said.

The Gulf saw only one tropical storm this year. Tropical Storm Barry formed in July, and its remnants caused catastrophic flooding in Texas and Mexico, resulting in multiple death

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