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With the end of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, we reflect on the seemingly odd dichotomy of this year’s storms: a near-average number of total tropical cyclones with a higher proportion of those storms reaching major hurricane status. Out of the five storms that became hurricanes, four strengthened to become major hurricanes...

On October 12, 2025, the remote western coast of Alaska found itself in the path of one of the most destructive storms to strike U.S. soil this year. At its peak, Typhoon Halong in the western Pacific was a Category 4-equivalent on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, before transforming into a major extratropical cyclone that slammed into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Y-K Delta). Storm surge reached six feet above normal high tide in some villages...

As summer winds down, the days grow shorter, the air cools, and the end of Atlantic hurricane season begins to come into view. The season officially runs from June 1st to November 30th, but its most active stretch typically falls between mid-August and mid-October, with September 10th marking the climatological peak (1). This is when the Atlantic usually produces the greatest number of storms, the strongest hurricanes, and the highest risk for coastal impacts. Yet this year, the peak has come and gone with surprisingly little action...

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) has announced their 2026 Weather, Water, and Climate Honorees, and three accomplished and well-deserving ACM members were among those recognized.