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This Sunday marks the end of the 2025 hurricane season, which in Cuba was characterized by the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa in the east.
"Today is the last day of the 2025 hurricane season. November has been very calm this year, with no named storms. Not even any disturbances were mentioned in the tropical weather forecast throughout the month," reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on X this Sunday.
According to Prensa Latina, this season saw the formation of 13 tropical cyclones, all of which were named storms as they reached the category of tropical storm.
Of these, five became hurricanes, and four were of great intensity. Additionally, among these intense hurricanes, they reached the highest category, something that only happened before in 2005 when four reached this level.
These are Erin, Humberto, and Melissa, which reached category five on the Saffir–Simpson scale.
Melissa is the most destructive hurricane of 2025 and historically the third worst recorded in the Atlantic, following Gilberto (1988) and Wilma (2005), after its devastating passage through Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and eastern Cuba.
Melissa generated a wind gust of 405 km/h, classified by experts as the most intense recorded in the Atlantic basin and the second worldwide.
The first formed cyclone was Andrea, on June 23, and the season also recorded 13 depressions and an equal number of storms, the information specifies
It was also the first season in the U.S. in a decade without any notable impact in hurricane territory.
In July, only Tropical Storm Chantal affected the East Coast of the United States, and in August, the powerful Hurricane Erin formed.
In mid-September, Hurricane Gabrielle formed in the central Atlantic, followed by Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda, which significantly impacted the Bermuda Islands
The meteor showers in 2025 were Andrea, Barry, Samanta, Dexter, Erin, Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Fernand, and Melissa.
Melissa in Cuba
Three weeks after the devastating passage of Hurricane Melissa, eastern Cuba continues to work on healing its deepest wounds. Official figures speak of progress, percentages, and "certification processes," but in the towns of Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo, the recovery feels less mathematical and more human.
A slow, uneven path marked by the anxiety of thousands of families still grappling with damage to their homes, the lack of basic services, and the uncertainty of how long it will take to return to normalcy.
The hurricane Melissa affected over 3.5 million Cubans, according to new estimates from the United Nations that significantly raise the initial figures released by the island's government.
The information was disseminated by the agency EFE, which cited an official report from the UN prepared after an assessment visit to the most devastated areas of eastern Cuba, where the cyclone made landfall twelve days ago as a category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
According to the report, more than 90,000 homes suffered partial or total damage, and approximately 100,000 hectares of crops were devastated.
Recently, Cuban authorities reported that more than 95 thousand homes were damaged in the province of Santiago de Cuba.
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