HURRICANE SEASON

There were 21 named storms in the Atlantic Ocean this year, including seven hurricanes.

Tropical Storm Wanda has officially died.

For the second year in a row, we’ve exhausted the list of names allocated for the Atlantic hurricane season.

The strong low-pressure system in the middle of the Atlantic has broken free of the fronts that were attached to it, so it meets the criteria to become a named system.

Hurricane season is still hanging on.

The last few years when October was so slow, an El Niño was underway.

The short answer is…maybe, but probably not.

The National Hurricane Center is giving the disturbance off the Southeast coast a decent chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm for a hot minute over the weekend.

The National Hurricane Center is making note of a broad area of disturbed weather over the southern Bahamas.

Still-powerful Hurricane Sam finally started to weaken overnight as it slipped past Bermuda about 200 miles to the east.

Hurricane Sam is a classic, super-intense hurricane. Thankfully, it will clearly turn north well away from the Caribbean islands and well east of Florida and the Bahamas. Bermuda will have to watch it as the storm approaches that island toward the end of the week.

Confidence is now high that Hurricane Sam will avoid the Caribbean islands as the storm arcs off to the north.

Tropical Storm Odette finally formed off the Mid-Atlantic coast yesterday.

Tropical Disturbance #1 is trying to consolidate in the extreme southern Gulf of Mexico. The

The weak disturbance that started in the Caribbean is over Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and forecast to drift into the Gulf of Mexico by late today.

Hurricane Larry is on a path to be a large and very strong hurricane in the tropical Atlantic between the Caribbean islands and Africa.

How students can be prepared as hurricane season enters its peak

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell encouraged her residents to stay inside, shelter in place and hunker down.

Hurricane Ida is expected to continue strengthening as it moves across warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and toward the Gulf Coast.

The animals came from four shelters in southern Louisiana that are at risk of being damaged due to the storm, so staff members reached out to the folks at the Humane Society of Broward County for help.

Its projected path has Hurricane Ida making landfall near New Orleans Sunday night, and for that reason, residents have been busy preparing as best they can.

The ingredients are coming together for Hurricane Ida to strengthen and grow larger before it plows into southern Louisiana tomorrow – 16 years to the day after Katrina made landfall on the eastern edge of the state.

A hurricane is expected to hit the Southeast United States this weekend as Ida, which strengthened into a tropical storm on Thursday, moves over the Caribbean Sea.

After threatening to wobble west toward central Long Island, Henri has drifted slightly east.

Saturday and Saturday evening are all that left to get everybody to a safe place before dangerous weather from Henri arrives on Long Island and across southern New England overnight.

Disorganized Tropical Storm Grace is speeding west just south Puerto Rico.

The large area of disturbed weather across the tropical Atlantic just south of the Saharan dust plume has three distinct circulations embedded in it.

Officials are forecasting 15 to 21 named storms instead of the 13 to 20 it predicted in May. Hurricane season lasts through the end of November, with its peak running from mid-August to mid-October.

Officials are forecasting 15 to 21 named storms instead of the 13 to 20 it predicted in May. Hurricane season lasts through the end of November, with its peak running from mid-August to mid-October.

U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

The Tropical Disturbance we have been following is a large swirl of clouds off the east coast of Florida.

The Tropical Disturbance we have been following offshore of Central Florida has a well-defined circulation with strong thunderstorms on the south and east side.

It’s great that summer is here, but that means another major season has arrived, too: Hurricane season.

Satellites and the space station crew are tracking the progress of the record-breaking deadly Tropical Storm Elsa as it moves along the Florida coast.

Local 10 News' Roy Ramos traveled up to Cedar Key, which is near the big bend of the state, located about an hour southwest of Gainesville.

Tropical Storm Elsa has the potential of strengthening back into a hurricane Sunday, as it continues to track near or just west of Key West.

A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for the Florida Keys from Craig Key westward to the Dry Tortugas as Tropical Storm Elsa began slowing down Saturday evening as it passes between Haiti and Jamaica.

It could affect Surfside, where the deadly condo collapsed.

South Florida is in the cone of concern as a new system has strengthened and is now Tropical Depression Five.

There are three disturbances in the Atlantic plus Hurricane Enrique in the Pacific to watch today.

The large tropical disturbance that moved off the coast of Africa this week is slowly progressing across the eastern tropical Atlantic.

Claudette was officially downgraded to a tropical depression because the highest sustained winds dropped below 40 mph.

Claudette is a comma-shaped system with the worst weather in the tail of the comma well removed from the center.

A broad circulation has developed near the southern coast of Mexico in the extreme southwestern Gulf.

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season has officially begun, and it's expected to bring a higher-than-average number of storms in the months ahead.

Learn how the hurricane season forecast is made, and the factors in the atmosphere and ocean that make a season busy or calm. Will the activity be above normal again?

Today is the start of Hurricane Season and the National Weather Service predicts an active season. South Floridians are most vulnerable

As hurricane season officially starts, strong upper-level winds are blowing across the Gulf, Caribbean and tropical Atlantic Ocean. As long as that flow keeps up, any tropical disturbances that think about developing will get blasted and fall apart.

As hurricane season officially starts, strong upper-level winds are blowing across the Gulf, Caribbean and tropical Atlantic Ocean. As long as that flow keeps up, any tropical disturbances that think about developing will get blasted and fall apart.

Florida's second COVID-19 hurricane season starts June 1, 2021, and emergency managers are planning how to shelter evacuees while mitigating risks.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava introduced a sea-level rise strategy, an ambitious plan to stay ahead of rising sea levels, and ultimately those severe flooding events.

When the power goes down, it powers up. And generators are becoming increasingly popular as people prepare for hurricane season.

Demand for plywood has gone through the roof since the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning it will be expensive and difficult to buy lumber this hurricane season.

Broward, Miami-Dade and Florida Keys emergency managers say they are prepared to help residents in need this hurricane season, even with the complications brought by COVID-19.

Florida Power & Light gave a sneak peek at some of its newest technology to make sure that when the power goes out this hurricane season, it won’t go out for long.

To get ready for Hurricane Season 2021, Bryan and Luke talk with Ken Graham, the Director of the National Hurricane Center about the big challenges and lessons of the 2020 hurricane season and what we learned about how storms behave, the computer forecast models, and much more.

The university reminded students of storm preparedness through an email earlier today.

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is doubling the funding to prepare for this Atlantic hurricane season and establishing a program to track climate change and its impact.

With the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season upon us, now is a good time to review the list of names that will be used throughout the six-month season.

Ana has morphed into a full-fledged tropical storm – but for just a hot minute.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average hurricane season for 2021, forecasting 13 to 20 named storms.

The 2021 hurricane season looks like it’ll be another active one, NOAA says, but not quite as bad as last year.

The 2021 hurricane season looks like it’ll be another active one, NOAA says, but not quite as bad as last year.

The 2021 hurricane season looks like it’ll be another active one, NOAA says, but not quite as bad as last year.

Its odds of developing are medium-high, at 50% in the next two days and 80% in the next five days. It is forecast to produce gale-force winds later Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

After a powerful hurricane left devastating damage to Miami’s historic Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the historic estate has unveiled a flood mitigation system they hope will prevent any future water damage.

The exhausting hurricane season, which saw 12 named storms make landfall in the continental U.S., ends Monday. It’s a season that saw us go deeper into the Greek alphabet than ever — nine letters deep. The next named storm, if there is one, would be Kappa.

It’s heading north in the Gulf and edging closer to the west coast of the state. Tropical Storm Warnings cover most of the west coast of Florida with a Hurricane Watch for the Tampa Bay area and points north. Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Theta is churning the waters of the far eastern Atlantic heading in the direction of Europe. Hurricane Eta is under an atmospheric environment that’s only moderately supportive of maintaining a storm of hurricane strength, so it’s not expected to get much stronger. Everyone, especially near the water, along the west coast needs to stay informed about local information and instructions.

Although hurricane season is officially June 1 to Nov. 30, there could be storms after the season concludes such as in 2005 when Tropical Storm Zeta formed Dec. 30 and lasted until Jan. 6. Tropical Storm Zeta didn’t threaten any land or lives and is classified as what forecasters call a “stat storm,” or one that just counts toward statistics. One or two more could be coming.

Already, the 2020 hurricane season is tied with 2005 for the most named storms in a year. If Eta forms as expected, this year will also tie 2005 for the most number of total storms in a season. A reanalysis of the 2005 season identified a previously unknown system that briefly became strong enough to earn a name — but it was too late to give it one.

Accordingly, the NHC is also watching an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the far eastern Atlantic. The area has a near-zero chance of development in the next 48 hours and a 20% of development in the next 5 days, the hurricane center said.

This would be the record-tying fourth storm to make landfall in Louisiana this year. The state has already seen landfalls by tropical storms Cristobal and Marco and Hurricane Laura, which ravaged the southwestern region as it roared ashore as a Category 4 storm in August. More than 6,600 Laura evacuees remain in hotels around the state, mainly in New Orleans, because their homes are too heavily damaged to return.

“It is possible that we could see a Fujiwhara effect between Gamma and this new tropical feature. The Fujiwhara effect is when two tropical systems moving in such close proximity of each other that they begin to swirl around their common center. This can force either tropical system to temporarily change course,” AccuWeather said Sunday.

“We were dealing with an area of low pressure very similar to this, developed down off the coast of Honduras, and initially models had nothing, had just a weak storm coming northward and that was it,” he said. "And you know what happened to Michael. Michael was a Cat 5 and it blasted Panama City... a lot of weather systems that develop down there are very difficult to forecast in October because there’s a lot of scenarios that can play out in these kinds of situations.