Hurricanes

A woman is overcome as she surveys her destroyed home in High Rock, Grand Bahama, in the Bahamas last week in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.

Bahamas Victims Know What Scientists Warn: Monster Storms Are The New Normal

Tim Padgett

FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA | Claudina Swann is searching for an object in the storm debris scattered around her backyard in the Bahamas. “Something was here...

Florida Department of Health staffers set up beds at an evacuation shelter in Stuart. When public schools double as shelters, it can delay reopening schools.

Wind, Damage And Shelters: The Hurricane Factors That Decide School Schedules

Jessica Bakeman

Like most South Floridians, school district officials here were closely watching Hurricane Dorian as it approached the state. In anticipation of the...

Hurricane Irma One Year Later

Mike Kiniry

One year ago today the WGCU News team was hunkered down at the station, broadcasting for eight straight hours, with the help of the Florida Public…

It's been a long time. Dust off your hurricane supplies.

Here's A Reminder Of What You Need In Case Of Hurricane

Eleonora Edreva

It's been 12 years since the last major hurricane hit South Florida, so we'd like to help you find and dust off your hurricane supplies. It's best to...

The WP-3D Orion turboprop aircraft is fitted with high-tech sensors placed on the plane's underbelly.

New 'Hurricane Hunter' Base On Schedule For Storm Season

The Associated Press

Officials say they are on schedule to open the new home base for the U.S. government's "hurricane hunter" aircraft before the Atlantic hurricane season...

Environment

Study: Female-Named Hurricanes Deadlier Than Male-Named Hurricanes

Topher Forhecz

It’s hurricane season. Although it’s been a quiet one so far, one study says if a storm does come through people may not take it as seriously if it has a…

Environment

Invasive Trees, Get Out!

When Hurricane Wilma tore through South Florida, the storm left a wake of snapped and uprooted trees.The hurricane-force winds took out all kinds of…

Hurricane Wilma brought the biggest storm surge seen in the Keys since Hurricane Betsy in 1965

For The Florida Keys, Wilma Brought Water

Nancy Klingener

Before Hurricane Wilma's winds swept across mainland South Florida, the storm's waters surged over the Florida Keys — the largest storm surge the...

Weather

Tropical Storm Erika Expected to Strengthen

Twelve hours after Danny dissipated, Erika was established as the season's fifth named storm in the Atlantic Basin. Located approximately 900 miles east…

Hurricane Danny Becomes Major Storm At Cat 3

Maria Murriel

Hours after it strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane, Danny, this season's first storm grew to a Category 3. Below is an excerpt from the National...