Hurricane Season has ended! What’s next?

Tuesday, Nov. 30 is the official end of Hurricane Season.

That’s right, but even though we made it without a big one hitting Houston, this year’s Atlantic hurricane season was another one for the record books.

The 2021 season became only the third in history to use all of the names on the rotating seasonal list.

To put things into perspective, in an average year, there would be 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.

But this year, we ended the season with 21 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher).

There were four major hurricanes this season: Grace, Ida, Larry, and Sam.

If you can remember, Ida and Sam were the strongest, both reaching Category 4 strength.

And Grace and Larry each peaked as Category 3 storms.

And when it comes to damages, in all, a total of four named storms left behind over $1 billion in damage each. Those included Tropical Storm Elsa, Tropical Storm Fred and Hurricane Nicholas.

And the biggest whopper of a bill came from IDA, which was the only major hurricane to make landfall across the US, when she entered Louisiana on Aug. 29. Causing more than 60 billion dollars in damages, Ida ranks among the top-five most costly hurricanes on record for the US since 1980.”

Despite there being three other major hurricanes in 2021, Ida will likely be the only name on the retired list this year, simply because of the amount of damage and fatalities caused.

So, we can breathe a sigh of relief as hurricane season ends, but now it’s time to place focus on making sure we don’t have a repeat winter storm debacle.

Not trying to speak anything into existence, just mentioning so we can all start preparing.