Final Month Of Hurricane Season Is Quiet As Frigid Air Looms For FL

The tropics remain quiet as the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season enters its homestretch. And a cold front expected to bring frigid temperatures in the 20s and 30s to some parts of Florida early next week, prompting some forecasters to say it’s unlikely there will be any more named storms in 2025.

So far, there have been 13 named storms this season; Hurricane Melissa, which strengthened to category 5 status and hit Jamaica, Cuba and Bermuda, was the most recent.

“Looks like we can just about call it,” Denis Phillips, chief meteorologist for Tampa Bay 28, wrote in a social media post sharing the Global Tropics Hazards Outlook for Nov. 12-18 and Nov. 19-25, which show no tropical development expected for those weeks.

This first taste of winter will move across the Midwest and East this weekend into the south, including Florida, AccuWeather forecasters said.

“Coldest air of the season so far is expected Monday into Tuesday across the country east of the Rockies. Many in the Great Lakes and Northeast will experience a frost or freeze, along with some seeing their first snowfall too! Even the Deep South will join in with lows in the 20s and 30s, along with 40s down across inland Southwest Florida. Get ready to bundle up,” Matt Devitt with WINK Weather wrote in a social media post.

“Near-freezing nighttime lows could reach the panhandle of Florida. This chilly blast could bring the first hard frost or hard freeze to some areas. Much of Florida will feel the chill by next Tuesday,” Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather’s lead long-range expert, said. “The coldest morning in the pattern for the Southeast will be Tuesday morning, when lows in the 20s will be widespread over the interior with lows in the 30s just inland along the Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana coasts.”

Meanwhile, a recent cold front has changed the weather pattern for the final month of hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30, Fox 13’s Paul Dellegatto wrote in a social media post.

“Hurricane season closed for U.S.! An unusually strong October cold front has not only cooled the Gulf, it flipped the weather pattern to one that more reflects winter,” he wrote. “While a Caribbean system is possible, threat to U.S. is very low.”

Still, never say never, as the Caribbean remains warm enough to possibly support tropical development over the next few weeks and there’s a temporary lull in disruptive winds, according to AccuWeather forecasters.

"We are closely monitoring the southwestern Caribbean for signs of tropical development in the coming weeks," Alex DaSilva, AccuWeather’s lead hurricane expert, said. "Atmospheric conditions could support development through mid-November."

Even if a system did develop in the western Caribbean, it would likely move west toward Central America or Mexico because of easterly steering breezes, DaSilva said, adding that any potential storm likely wouldn’t strengthen much because of limited development time before landfall.

There is typically one named storm in November about every two years, forecasters said.

"In more recent years; however, November storms are becoming a bit more common. In November of 2024, for example, there were 3 named storms in the Atlantic Basin, one of which reached hurricane strength," DaSilva said. "We are seeing an uptick in frequency with respect to late-season storms, which is likely due to the warmer sea surface temperatures observed.”

Only three hurricanes have made landfall in Florida in November in 173 years of record keeping — Nicole in 2022, Kate in 1985 and an unnamed storm in 1935 — and four tropical storms, Fox 35 said.