(KHLA - Lake Charles, Louisiana) - Everyone who lives on the gulf coast is on pins and needles during hurricane season every year, but can we now breath more easily with the season winding down? Getty Images Getty Images loading...Hurricane season runs between June 01 - November 30, however, is there a time before the official end of the hurricane season when gulf coast residents don't have to worry about hurricanes anymore? It appears by his graphic, the trade winds in the Caribbean change to push up and out into the Atlantic steering storms away from the gulf. However it happens this is some very comforting news to those of us who are biting our nails all hurricane season. These shifts mean storms are more often steered away from the Gulf or toward Florida/East Coast rather than running west-northwest into the Gulf.