Hurricane Season

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The human services organization FISH of SANCAP will participate in Elevate Florida, a new statewide residential mitigation program designed to help homeowners strengthen their properties against future hurricanes and floods. The Florida Dept. of Emergency Management (FDEM) announced the launch of Elevate Florida on Feb. 7.

Individuals impacted by Hurricanes Helene or Milton may be eligible for financial assistance through the American Red Cross. The Red Cross is providing financial assistance to Floridians whose homes suffered major damage or were destroyed by the hurricanes and who still face obstacles in their recovery. Red Cross financial assistance is not a loan and does not need to be repaid.

While many people know to get non-perishable food and clean water before a hurricane, not as many people consider how they can be technologically prepared for the storm and the days that follow. Nearly a full week after Hurricane Milton, Spectrum Internet reported outages for more than 367,000 Floridians, and with reports of poor cell service due to increased traffic and loss of infrastructure, many people had spotty communication at best.

When a hurricane hits, families that have a member with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have even more hurdles to clear than other families do.

There are a number of factors at play when it comes to predicting how active a hurricane season will be, the most important being the surface water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Back in April and May temperatures in the region of the Atlantic where storms tend to develop were already what we would expect to see in early summer — and now in June temperatures are already at levels we would expect in August, which is when hurricane season peaks. We have a conversation about the 2024 season, and the various factors contribute to how active it will be, with Megan Borowski from the Florida Public Radio Network.

As of 4 p.m. Saturday the second system being watched in the Atlantic, Invest 99, developed into a tropical depresssion. The National Hurricane Center continued watching the four other systems currently in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico shows a variety of levels of development.

Hurricanes in the U.S. the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists traditionally calculate and a disproportionate number of those victims are poor, vulnerable and minorities, according to a new epidemiological study.

Extreme weather events have broken out around the world, but not yet here. Superheated sea surface temperatures may bring a big hurricane to Florida.. Get prepared now.

As the 2023 hurricane season starts, memories are still fresh of Hurricane Ian causing billions of dollars in damage and pushing water across Southwest Florida barrier islands. Emergency-management officials believe they must do more to communicate the risks of approaching storms.