Hurricane Season 2024

The Florida disaster preparedness tax-free holiday will run from June 1 through June 14.

Your guide to everything you must know about the Atlantic Hurricane Season. Know what the terminology means

La Nina and warmer-than-average ocean temperatures are major drivers of tropical activity. NOAA stressed that their "outlook" is for overall seasonal activity and is not a landfall forecast.

Retailers hope Floridians will heed multiple forecasts that the upcoming hurricane season will be more active than normal.With the start of a 14-day sales tax “holiday” on storm-related items a little more than a week away, Florida Retail Federation President Scott Shalley said Wednesday it is important that residents are ready as “we’ve already seen some pretty severe weather in the state.”

Top Florida utility officials said Tuesday that increased intensity and unpredictability of hurricanes is making storm preparation more difficult — and expensive.Leaders of utility companies and associations representing municipal utilities and electric cooperatives made presentations to the Florida Public Service Commission as the six-month hurricane season gets ready to start June 1.

Although the Atlantic hurricane season doesn't start until June 1, the National Hurricane Center begins issuing tropical outlooks on May 15.

The official start of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season isn’t until June first, but the environment is already signaling that a system could form well before then. Wednesday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center identified an area of low pressure that they are monitoring in the tropics.

As director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management since April 2021, Kevin Guthrie has run point on disasters from Category 4 hurricanes to a deadly condominium-building collapse in Surfside.Guthrie also has been charged with overseeing the evacuation of Floridians from strife-torn Haiti, along with a controversial program to transport migrants to “sanctuary” areas of the country.

There is no better word than “blistering” to describe the reaction of local water-quality nonprofits to how the Army Corps has managed the level in Lake Okeechobee. But Col. James Booth has a tough job.