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The Climate Prediction Center’s updated weather outlook indicates a slightly increased confidence of a strong El Niño event by this winter.

Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 made global headlines when it spent 24 hours inside category 4 Hurricane Sam in September 2021, delivering the world’s first video footage from inside a major hurricane as it surged across the Atlantic.

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.

As of Friday morning there were three systems in various stages of development in the Atantic and one heading west in the Gulf of Mexico.

The National Hurricane Center has issued the last advisory on Post-Tropical Cyclone Don, located over the north-central Atlantic. Two other systems are now being watched.

Hurricane Don was short-lived, returning to tropical storm status Sunday and likely to lose tropical characteristics by early Monday while a low pressure system still has a chance to become a tropical depression during the next few days while it moves westward across the tropical Atlantic and eastern Caribbean Sea. Additionally, heat advisories were continued in most of Southwest and South Florida.

Gilbert Green is not an ordinary storm chaser. A software engineering major at Florida Gulf Coast University, who is also minoring in physics and mathematics, Green spent the summer of 2022 chasing and photographing lightning around Southwest Florida.

The storm that caused widespread destruction throughout Southwest Florida will no longer have an active name. The name Idris will replace Ian on future lists.

A recent case that originated in Southwest Florida was a big win for privacy rights.

"These agencies are basically pretending that another catastrophic oil spill cannot possibly occur, cannot possibly be a risk for the Gulf of Mexico. And we know that that risk is real, and they need to be paying attention to that," said Chris Eaton, Earthjustice attorney.