{"id":67380,"date":"2025-12-02T02:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:25:27","slug":"tampa-neighbors-breathe-sigh-of-relief-with-end-of-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67380\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa neighbors breathe sigh of relief with end of hurricane season"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Sunday marked the official end of hurricane season. It was a quiet one in the Tampa Bay area compared to years past, and that wasn\u2019t lost on homeowners who were hit hard in 2024.<\/p>\n

“How do you feel today knowing that the 2025 hurricane season is officially behind us?\u201d asked Tampa Bay 28 reporter Mary O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n

Watch full report from Mary O’Connell<\/p>\n

Tampa neighbors breathe sigh of relief with end of hurricane season<\/p>\n

\u201cYay!\u201d Carlton Bryant said through laughter.<\/p>\n

Bryant lives off South West Shore Boulevard in Tampa.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay 28 first spoke with him last year<\/a>, right after Hurricane Helene devastated the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

We checked back in with him now, more than 365 days later, as we closed the book on another hurricane season.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuge relief,\u201d he said. “I think all the neighbors, everyone in South Tampa are just glad that we didn\u2019t have to live through that again.\u201d<\/p>\n

But why was this season so quiet?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had no landfall in US hurricanes this season at all,\u201d said Tampa Bay 28 Meteorologist Ally Blake.<\/p>\n

Blake explained what was behind this year\u2019s season.<\/p>\n

“We just had a specific weather pattern set up where we had lots of troughs. We have ridges and troughs. We say ridges keep us nice and clear, and troughs are when we get fronts, so to speak. We just had so many that came across the US, so when anything would get close, you can see a lot of those turns, the trough would come across the US and would take it away,\u201d she said. \u201cAnother thing that happened this season, why we were so quiet was we had a lot of Saharan dust.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as Blake pointed out, it really only takes one storm to make it a bad season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had so many turn away from us that it was quiet, and yes that is unusual, but I feel like our unusual changes also every year,\u201d said Blake.<\/p>\n

Residents in Tampa know how a hurricane can change the neighborhood’s landscape.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you can see, some of these other houses that have been torn down now because they just weren\u2019t livable and couldn\u2019t be fixed,\u201d said Bryant.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s too early to tell what the 2026 season will bring, neighbors are staying prepared to weather any storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot too worried about it,\u201d said Bryant. “We know what to do now.”<\/p>\n

Share Your Story with Mary

Mary O\u2019Connell has a primary focus on education-related stories for Tampa Bay 28. But she also keeps an eye on public health concerns and the always-changing car insurance market. Reach out to Mary to share any of your questions or concerns.<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Lawsuit alleges deputy driving 97 mph without lights and siren killed truck driver<\/p>\n

Deputy was speeding to call involving a fight among elementary school students on school bus when black box shows he was driving nearly double the speed limit on busy highway<\/p>\n

Lawsuit alleges deputy driving 97 mph without lights and siren killed truck driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Sunday marked the official end of hurricane season. It was a quiet one in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38822,205,39394,276,6608,3125,1802,39395,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-67380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2025-hurricane-season","tag-abc-action-news","tag-ally-blake","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-hurricane-debby","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-hurricane-milton","tag-hurricane-season-ends","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}