Hurricane Season 2024

After a brutal hurricane season, Christmas tree farmers could be feeling the pinch this holiday season.

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.

Hurricane forecasters got it right when they predicted that 2024 had the ingredients necessary to fuel an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season, but no one could have predicted just how historic the season would turn out to be.

The season, which ends Nov. 30, produced 18 named storms, including 11 turbocharged hurricanes along with Helene and Milton, which devastated the Tampa Bay area.

People coming to Florida from up north must also deal with the effects of recent storms and increasing insurance costs.

Details regarding rain intensity and timing for next week are still unknown, but Sara could produce heavy rain for parts of Florida by the middle to end of next week.

This system will become Sara and it is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico next week. Could it impact Florida? How?

The tropics continue to be prolific. Within the next seven days, there is a high chance of having the 18th named storm of the season.

November continues active with Rafael meandering over the Gulf of Mexico and another tropical wave traveling north of the Leeward Islands.

Hurricane Rafael made landfall in Cuba as a powerful Category 3 hurricane shortly after powerful winds knocked out the country’s power grid.