Yesterday marked the end of the 2014 Hurricane season. Now many of you might not have even noticed and that's fine…given the relatively calm season we had this year with only one slight scare: which, in itself, was just the last breath of Tropical Depression Hanna. We asked with Chief Met Officer Dennis Gonguez about this year's unremarkable hurricane season.
Dennis Gonguez, Chief Met Officer
"This season was just about average or a little bit below average as was predicts at the beginning of the season that it would be just an average season. We had 8 name systems and typically we would have about 12 name systems. Of those 8 name systems, 6 of them became hurricanes and again the average is about 6 hurricanes per season. Of those 6 that became hurricanes we had two major hurricanes. We had the remnants of tropical depression number 9 that crossed us around the 23rd - 24th October. That was a tropical depression that was formed in the Bay of Campeche and it headed eastwards and it weaken as it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula and the remains of that cross us on around the 23rd - 24th October eastward and was pushed out by a cold front and the it develop into tropical storm Hanna off northeastern Honduras. Hanna moves into Honduras and weaken into the mountains of Honduras."
This year's season is nothing compared to 2010 when Hurricane Richard hit Belize. We are sure you all remember the countless houses and trees that were knocked down and destroyed in the city and the capital. Gonguez says the forecast for 2015 will be out in a couple of days.
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