2022 Hurricane Season

The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on two disturbances, but only one has a chance to turn into a named storm.

The United Stated Air Force accomplishes hundreds of flying missions across the world every day. But one flight has a purpose like no other.

The Hurricane Hunters of Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi fly dozens of missions into tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the central Pacific for the National Hurricane Center. They gather critical weather data that is used to create critically important computer models and weather outlooks.

Sometimes a disaster brings out the best in people, and sometimes it brings out the worst. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s office is warning residents of the potential for scammers who might appear as federal officials knocking on your door.

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation is awarding $5 million to local housing partners to help Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian pay their home insurance deductibles in the six hardest hit counties: Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hardee, Lee, and Sarasota counties.

With more than 900 rental bikes gone, along with vehicles and other items, Billy Kirkland is trying to figure out how his future and the island fit together.

A memorial wall at Centennial Park in downtown Fort Myers stands as a somber reality of the lives lost in Hurricane Ian.The wall is organic and decorated with flowers, crosses and photos of the lives lost ... the remnants of the destruction that Ian left in its path remain.

The small stone crabbing community flooded again, just five years after Irma pushed ashore a storm surge that coated the town with mud and destroyed homes. WLRN's Jenny Staletovich visited Everglades City and saw that some fixes from resilient residents helped lessen the impact - but there was again suffering.

All of them have cleared the nine criteria the District established to ensure the campuses were safe for students and staff to return.

The projection has been scaled back because Citizens has not seen as many claims as initially expected in areas outside of hard-hit Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties.