Hurricane Season 2024

Debby will continue to bring storms with flash flooding possible Tuesday

Lee County Parks & Recreation is assessing sites for damage and impacts from Tropical Storm Debby, which made landfall as Hurricane Debby in Florida’s Big Bend earlier Monday. Bunche Beach Preserve, Lynn Hall Memorial Park and access No. 4 of Bonita Beach Park are currently closed. Some parking areas along Bonita Beach has also been impacted.

Hurricane Debby is in Florida causing torrential rains and strong winds. It will lose wind speeds as it moves over land, but also forward speed. Major flooding expected.

Coast Guard aircrews rescued two adrift boaters, Sunday, after their 34-foot sailing vessel lost its sail 73 miles off Boca Grande.No injuries were reported.

Crucial next 12 hours for Debby as it moves over a region of very warm waters, rapid intensification is likely before it reaches Florida.

“Catastrophic rain” is what Florida officials said Sunday they expect when Tropical Storm Debby comes ashore Monday, likely as a hurricane.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other state officials held multiple media briefings Sunday as Debby started to move over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters and targeted the Big Bend area of the state.Florida Department of Emergency Management director Kevin Guthrie says the situation coming from Debby will change Monday.

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Messy tropical wave to provide an uptick in rainfall starting this weekend. What are the chances of it developing?

A shift to the west is seen in the latest Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center.In Thursday's 2 p.m. report, the NHC said that a well-defined tropical wave, named Invest 97, is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms over Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Southeastern Bahamas, and the adjacent waters of the southwestern Atlantic and northeastern Caribbean Sea.