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The climate in Belize is tropical, with a rainy season from June to November and a dry season from January to May. Natural hazards include hurricanes (mostly in the late Atlantic hurricane season, September to December) and coastal flooding, especially in the south.
Damage in Belize after Hurricane Keith. October 1, 2000 - Hurricane Keith stalls off shore of Belize, killing 19 people and causing $280 million in damage. As Keith stalled offshore Belize, water was blown out of Chetumal Bay, with reports of people walking on the dry bay floor, even though the water could return with a slight shift in the wind direction.
Several late November systems have persisted into December thus enhancing its count. Conversely, only one storm has formed in March, followed by February with two. Additionally, a pair of hurricanes have spanned two calendar years: Hurricane Alice in 1954–1955, and Tropical Storm Zeta in 2005–2006.
Tropical Storm Nadine was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall in Belize in October 2024. The fourteenth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Nadine originated from a non-tropical disturbance over the western Caribbean Sea, and underwent tropical cyclogenesis on the same day.
The following lists events in the year 2025 in Belize. Incumbents. Monarch: Charles III; ... This page was last edited on 29 December 2024, at 10:25 (UTC).
The following is a list of weather events that occurred in 2011. ... December 13–19 1,257 [5] 3 ... Tropical Storm Harvey struck Belize and Mexico, ...
Belize became the first country in the world to completely ban bottom trawling in December 2010. [93] [94] In December 2015, Belize banned offshore oil drilling within 1 km (0.6 mi) of the Barrier Reef and all of its seven World Heritage Sites. [95]
The hurricane warning associated with Hurricane Richard remained in place for the east coast of Belize as landfall was occurring, [37] since the storm made landfall to the south-southeast of Belize City. [22] Prior to the storm's landfall, an estimated 10,000 people took refuge in storm shelters and churches. [38]