Gulf Coast

A Gulf Low and a Caribbean system will simultaneously impact Florida this week. Flooding winds and damaging wind gusts are expected over the Panhandle and South Florida

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium celebrated the official opening of its Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery Research Center Monday as the first fully operational Caribbean king crab hatchery that will aid in efforts to save Florida’s coral reefs.

Florida gas prices increased as projected last week with the state average jumping 11 cents per gallon, reaching a new 2023 high of $3.85 per gallon on Thursday.

In what many scientists are calling “unprecedented” heat, some areas of the gulf are running 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal.

Saildrone and NOAA kicked off the third-annual Atlantic Hurricane mission this week with an event at NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, where all the tools NOAA is using to study hurricanes were on display.

Just don't swim in it. The seawater lapping ashore on Seagate Beach and Keewaydin Island in Collier County is brown, but it’s not an immediate cause for alarm. It’s a bloom of Trichodesmium, a special kind of tiny plant that provides nitrogen to parts of the ocean that don't have enough nutrients. After it decays, however, marine scientists think it is a precursor to red tide

The National Hurricane Center reported that a central Gulf of Mexico system was an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a surface trough of low pressure interacting with an upper-level trough over the central Gulf of Mexico.

Two loggerhead sea turtles, nicknamed “Lilly” and “Farmer,” were released from Lido Beach on Tuesday after recovering from red tide toxins at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital.

All winning entries in each category will be published on the GCWA website. There is no limit to number of submissions but entrants may win only one prize.

"I've lived in Florida all my life, but it was eye-opening, to say the least," said Eric Rakstis. "I actually pulled three people out from the water that were washed off of their boats, so it was four of us all together on my tiny, little 27-foot boat."