And to close out the season we got a re-cap of 2021's hurricane activity from Chief Meteorologist Ronald Gordon. He says that while the close of the season is a relief, even for his team, we can never completely let our guards down where storm surges are concerned.

Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist
"For this season we started off with 20 named storms, sorry or 21 named storms forming, of those 7 became named storms and 4 became major hurricanes."

"Fortunately for us here in Belize we had no significant threat nor significant impact from any of the systems. The closest system to us was hurricane Grace which made landfall on the Yucatan peninsula near Tulum Mexico as a category 1 hurricane, so what can we expect going forward, it is the end of the hurricane season officially. However its not the end of weather conditions and we do know that we can have severe weather conditions outside of the hurricane season, the impacts of course would be on a lower or a smaller scale typically community to household level, but you have severe thunder storms disruptive winds that can cause devastation on the local scale no, so the message that I would want to leave with the public is of course to remain vigilant and to continue listening to your weather reports from the national MET service and the alerts coming from the organization."

"If you look at just these two seasons we had consecutive or back-to-back seasons where we actually reached the end of the list of names. So the list consists of 21 names. Last year was record breaking where we had 13 main storms well above the average and this year we had 21 which is at the end of the list which is Wanda. So. certainly we are seeing that we are seeing more forming throughout the season."

"If you had a hurricane plan which persons should have then you should revise and see where you could make improvements and of course start prepare for next year hurricane season. In terms of weather conditions and day to day scale what I would advise residents to do is monitor the weather situation, keep abreast of official information coming out and take actions where necessary. The national met service continues to issue alerts on any types of weather conditions whether it be severe or strong thunderstorms, heavy downfall that can lead to flooding, we also can look at conditions whereby even in thunderstorms you could have strong gusty winds that could be disruptive and affect your households and that type of thing. So people should be on their alert, prepared to take action if necessary."

"Certainly, we are relieved. During the hurricane season we are always on the alert. Of course we are alert all year round, but the hurricane season is especially critical times for us here at the MET service and we have to be monitoring the situation closely. We are of course were prepared, we have all our equipment functioning properly and of course we have support from our regional partners. We were ready for any eventuality, but fortunately and thankfully the country was spared from any sort of major threat this year."