The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has been blissfully uneventful so far, at least for us here in south Louisiana.

With just two months left in the season, a hurricane has yet to form in the Gulf. Only one of this year's 10 named storms, Tropical Storm Chantal, has hit the U.S. And earlier this fall, as the Atlantic entered what is historically its peak for tropical activity, the ocean was entirely void of named storms.

But the few storms that have reached hurricane strength have experienced an explosive kind of growth, with the first three hurricanes of the year bursting to Category 4 strength or higher after undergoing rapid intensification.

The last time an Atlantic season's first three hurricanes were major storms of Cat 3 strength or more was 90 years ago in 1935, according to Phil

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