“You have time to prepare — all day today, all day Monday, probably all day Tuesday to be sure your hurricane preparedness plan is in place,” the governor said. “If you’re on that west coast of Florida, barrier islands, just assume you’ll be asked to leave.” Get Starting Point...
everything Americans thought they knew about storm threats must now be reexamined. Some Western North Carolina counties located 485 miles north of where Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on September 26 in Florida’s Big B...
This particular storm formed a million years ago due to a wave of solar energy hitting the planet, causing warm, moist, air to rise and condense, forming a tremendously large cumulonimbus cloud. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when this storm formed. After a week,temperilianswere confused....
But although some areas of Florida including the Tampa Bay region escaped the onslaught of towering storm surge and intense winds, they encountered an entirely opposite phenomenon — the reverse surge. Tropical systems in the Northern Hemisphere spin counter-clockwise around their eye. This means ...
Before hitting Mexico and moving into the Gulf,Beryl had already spread destruction in Jamaica,St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados this week. Three people have been reported dead in Grenada, three in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela an...
Katrina formed in the Bahamas and was still a tropical storm when it hit the Florida coastline. It reemerged in the Gulf, quickly building to a Category 5 storm , first hitting Louisiana at Burrwood., then moving across the state to the New Orleans area. Katrina is the worst natural disa...
Hurricane Helene is rapidly intensifying as huge storm charges toward Florida’s coast “Just hope and pray that everybody’s safe,” said Connie Dillard, of Tallahassee, as she shopped at a grocery store with thinning shelves of water and bread before hitting the highway out of town. “Th...
While new businesses have opened at record rates, more than half of all Florida small businesses either voluntarily closed or were forced to close during the pandemic. New businesses are having a difficult time trying to remain open, however, as cases of COVID-19 surge throughout the Gulf ...
The National Hurricane Center forecast the Louisiana landfall of Hurricane Laura on the mark nearly four days in advance of the storm hitting the US coast. By Sunday morning — when the storm was only a 50 mph tropical storm over Haiti — the National Hurricane Center was projecting the stor...
Florida could start feeling Ian’s wrath as early as Tuesday, with hurricane conditions potentially hitting the state Wednesday. The hurricane center’s forecast for Ian “has shown an unprecedented rate of strengthening from a tropical storm to powerful hurricane,” CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller ...