Thanksgiving in the Tropics! Hurricane Season Ends with Only Tropical Storm Chantal Making Landfall in USA. Major Canes Out at Sea Til Sadly Melissa Slammed Jamaica with Historic Hurricane Force Winds... Winter on the Way I'm Happy to Say! Thankful for All My Weather Friends ;)

 

Black Friday is all about cold air.

Buy hoodies, boots and gloves!

There's a very old saying "don't take any wooden nickels" and I'll add that should be remembered when the GFS promises a named tropical system in December in Florida when cold fronts reign across the South. Cold weather with dry air behind it all the way down into Florida. Miami may or may not participate but it's beginning to look a lot like Meteorological Winter and that's in 5 days when the calendar flips to December. 

Thanksgiving scatters snow in the Midwest.

It already snowed in Minnesotta yesterday.

More is on the way behind that.

The front is draped across South Florida.

No named storm is in sight!

Over the next few days I'll write something on the 2025 Hurricane Season as it ends officially very soon. I'm a Capricorn, while I am not boring, I do like traditional dates and November 30th it's officially over.  As for the seasons I go by Meteorological dates so on December 1st Winter begins officially for me. I do pay attention to the Winter Solstice and it deserves it's own attention especially in a year when the Polar Vortex may be a term as popular as Rapid Intensification was in 2025 with our Major Hurricanes.

Our Season was a Tale of 2 Seasons.

Perhaps 3 in ways.

The early weak Tropical Storms.

Chantal did make landfall in the USA.

Went deep into NC over Raleigh & beyond!

The clean up from flooding is still going on.

Carrboro, Durham, Chapel Hill had flooding.

People seem to forget that....

..while high giving "no hurricanes in USA this year!"

There were a plethora of Invests.

Some elevated to "any time now" status...

...yet they faded away.

I was at OBX with the Invest nearby before Erin.

Major Hurricane.

Cat 3, Cat 4.... Cat 5 oh my!

It did miss making landfall...tho it impacted NC.

Erin then moved close to landfall and...

...pulled out at the last moment.

Something changed after Erin.

The predictions for a backloaded hurricane season veried and the season came alive when Humberto went Cat 5 as the calendar turned towards October and it ended when Melissa broke through the dam and made it into the Caribbean and aimed itself directly at that pool of hot water South of Jamaica as if it had been reading posts on X showing it where it needed to go to explode. And explode it did and with that explosive energy we had the strongest gusts every recorded by recon in the Atlantic Basin EVER! 

While the USA did not get a direct hit by a hurricane, Jamaica got a Cat 5 that'll be remembered forever and be written about in the history books. More on that later in future blogs.

The season was a tale of two seasons in that many storms were forgetful and not worth remembering and struggled greatly to even keep their name and other storms took off as if they were on steroids exploding and putting on quite the show.

Barry remnants were or weren't involved in Tx flooding.

The jury is out and depends on who you believe.

I believe it's remnants made a difference.

Some Invests were more memorable....

...then some short lived weak tropical storms.

Every year is different.

Every storm is different.

But for now.... I'm watching Winter Storms.

Watching, praying and waiting!

And if we got another Solar Storm...

...I'd be so in.

Stay tuned.

Have an incredible Thanksgiving.

Wherever you are... make it your own!

Enjoy your favorite foods....

...and hope you get the dessert you want!

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on X

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Elsewhere whatever ;)