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TAMPA, Fla — Spectrum Bay News 9 meteorologists will appear at a number of hurricane expos and other preparation events ahead of storm season, which starts June 1. The events are designed to ...
The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, emotion and reality This story appears in our May/June issue, officially ...
With our ever-warming planet, storm systems are only going to get more severe and more frequent, and the 2025 hurricane season is no exception. A new report from Colorado State University ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Forecasters with NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Climate Prediction Center announced a 30% chance of below-normal tropical cyclone activity for the upcoming ...
The status of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund is important to Floridians regardless of where they live. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — A state-created fund that backs up private insurers in ...
Hurricane forecasters are once again predicting a busier-than-average hurricane season for the East Coast in 2025. AccuWeather forecasts are predicting a “dynamic” 2025 season, said lead ...
May 14 is the final deadline for unincorporated Polk County residents to schedule hurricane debris pickup. Residents must call 863-535-2200 before May 14 to be added to the final pickup list.
“Equal services to everybody that are receiving federal services, which, the post office is one,” said Judi Melton ... offices that were damaged during Hurricane Helene," Bogenberger said ...
Mike Brennan, then the acting branch chief of the Hurricane Specialist Unit at the National Hurricane Center, gives the 2 p.m. update on Hurricane Irma on Sept. 7, 2017. On April 10, 2023 ...
A hurricane evacuation sign, posted along May River Road sends drivers inland as photographed on June 4, 2024 in Bluffton. The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and will end at the end of ...
Nearly half of hurricane fatalities occur after the storm hits. Don't walk in floodwaters. They could have not only harmful bacteria or chemical but could be hiding sharp objects and dangerous ...