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Isaias strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on Friday and is expected to make landfall near Pensacola by Saturday morning.
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Gradual development is possible this week, but it will likely take the whole week for anything to develop. Rain across Florida this week is due to a front and local effects.
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Hurricane Ian arrived in Southwest Florida four years ago today. Whether you experienced true devastation or were just seriously inconvenienced, Ian left a deep mark on everyone who experienced it. In the months after Ian the folks at the Gulf Coast Writers Association embarked on a project to collect some of them for a book that could capture the moment from different perspectives and that culminated in the 2023 book Storm Stories – Hurricane Ian: Stories of Survival, Heroism, and Humanity. We talk with Christie Zarria, who co-edited the book, and award-winning author Robert N. Macomber, who lost his St. James home and wrote the book's forward.
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Hurricane Ian arrived in Southwest Florida four years ago today. Whether you experienced true devastation or were just seriously inconvenienced, Ian left a deep mark on everyone who experienced it. In the months after Ian the folks at the Gulf Coast Writers Association embarked on a project to collect some of them for a book that could capture the moment from different perspectives and that culminated in the 2023 book Storm Stories – Hurricane Ian: Stories of Survival, Heroism, and Humanity. We talk with Christie Zarria, who co-edited the book, and award-winning author Robert N. Macomber, who lost his St. James home and wrote the book's forward.
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Following the Autumnal Equinox, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) predicts above normal rainfall totals and temperatures across the entire state of Florida.
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Tropical Storm Fay formed southwest of the Azores in the northeast Atlantic, but there is no direct threat to land.
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An upper-level low that will move across Florida late during the week and over the weekend will help to increase moisture and erosion to east coast beaches.
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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance in the central Atlantic, but the system poses no threat to the U.S. and faces an uphill climb for development.
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Periods of heavy rain are coming to the Sunshine State. We need the rain, but these amounts could also produce flash floods throughout the rest of the week.
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An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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