Hurricane Milton — Oct. 5 - present. Hurricane Milton formed as a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico before strengthening rapidly to a hurricane on Oct. 6. It initially moved towards the north coast of the Yucatan Peninsula before veering toward central Florida. On Oct. 7 it rapidly...
Makatla Ritchter, left, and her mother, Keiphra Line, wade through flood waters after having to evacuate their home during Hurricane Idalia on August 30, 2023, in Tarpon Springs, Florida.Getty Images More than 254,000 customers were without power in north Florida as of 5:30 p.m., accor...
Michael struck theFloridaPanhandle as a Category 5 hurricane, and Florence impacted nearly every community in the Carolinas. Due to the hurricanes’ widespread destruction and human toll, the World Meteorological Organization retired both names and replaced them with Francine and Milton, which will make...
Map shows the forecast for dangerous storm surge from Hurricane Idalia in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas as of Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023.NOAA / National Weather Service In Crystal River, north of Tampa, city manager Doug Baber warned about the threat of storm surge — the worst...
Florida, as a category 1 hurricane—a storm that, on theSaffir-Simpson scale, exhibitswindsin the range of 74–95 miles (119–154 km) per hour. Sustained winds of 70 miles (115 km) per hour lashed the Florida peninsula, and rainfall totals of 5 inches (13 cm) were reported in some...
We’re not trying to be Debbie Downers(get it?!).But rather, we’re bringing this to your attention in case you’re visiting Walt Disney World over the coming weekend or early next week so you can properly prepare. Even if this doesn’t develop into anything that approaches Florida, rai...
Wind gusts blow across Sarasota Bay as Hurricane Ian churns to the south on September 28, 2022 in Sarasota, Florida. The storm made a U.S. landfall at Cayo Costa, Florida this afternoon as a Category 4 hurricane with wind speeds over 140 miles per ho Expand If the latest u...
Fast-moving Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida's northwestern coast as a Category 4 storm Thursday evening, threatening a “catastrophic” storm surge as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland
10:23 a.m. 8:52:58, August 30, 2023 A marina owner is boarding up as he plans to ride out the storm From CNN’s Sara Smart, John Berman and Bill Weir The owner of a marina in Florida’s gulf coast town of Steinhatchee told CNN he is choosing to stay put despite local evacuatio...
An aerial picture taken on October 1, 2022, shows a broken section of the Pine Island Road, debris and destroyed houses in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlacha, Florida. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images Hurricane season is months away, but the waters where hurricanes roam have...