If you’ve noticed a more vibrant sunset in our State, there’s a good chance it might be because of an active volcano in Mexico. Scientists say the volcano’s dust and ash hopped a ride on the jet stream and made its way across the Gulf Coast to Florida over the past week. Sunset Alert! Volcano […]
It’s spooky season! Halloween is synonymous with trick or treating, haunted houses and horror movies. But nearly 1 in 10 people have a fear of weather, including phobias of the weather. According to a study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, storm phobias occur in 2%–3% of the general population. 👀⚡7 WEATHER […]
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a broad area of low pressure over the Caribbean. In the short term, this area does not have a chance to develop. If anything does develop, it will be by the end of next week when conditions become more favorable for a tropical system to develop. The NHC gives […]
If you’re keeping score, Hurricane Milton set Florida’s state record for the most tornadoes in a given day. There were at least 46 tornadoes confirmed in the State, that’s more than twice any other day in Florida’s modern recorded history. According to National Weather Service data put out by the Southeast Regional Climate Center, Hurricane […]
As we get ready to close off the last month of hurricane season, we start to look closer to land, where storms are more likely to develop. When storms develop in these areas, they tend to turn east, but there are still a few instances when the shift doesn't happen soon enough to avoid land. […]
It’s been 2 weeks since Hurricane Milton roared into western central Florida and then bisected the State with hurricane winds. Milton eventually moved off of eastern north Florida a day later. Several central and northern Florida lakes and rivers continue to remain above flood stage. Officials say it could be weeks if not months before […]
A tropical disturbance monitored for several days develops into a storm on Saturday morning. On Saturday afternoon, it quickly became a hurricane just north of the Dominican Republic. Oscar is expected to move slowly west and southwest, likely impacting Cuba Monday morning as a category 1 hurricane. As it impacts southern Cuba, it is expected […]
Many Floridians are struggling to regroup after back to back hurricanes: Helene and then Milton, slammed into Florida. Now, several communities that straddle rivers are trying to navigate river flooding a week after Hurricane Milton made landfall. Hurricane Milton blasted some parts of the Sunshine state with nearly 20 inches of rain in a matter […]
