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Jenny Staletovich/All things considered, the state has been relatively unscathed in the highly active storm season, allowing emergency staff in Florida — who also needed to react to wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic — to continue addressing lingering impacts of past storms. -
Hurricane Sam matched Hurricane Ida as the season's strongest hurricane late Sunday, but is forecast to stay at sea. Two new tropical depressions are likely to form behind Sam, closer to the coast of Africa this week.
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Sam rapidly intensified into a hurricane Friday morning and is forecast to become a major hurricane over the weekend.
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Tropical Depression Eighteen is expected to become a tropical storm by Thursday, acquiring the name Sam.
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According to the National Weather Service, at 3:20 p.m. EDT today, the Autumnal Equinox (the moment when the length of daylight and darkness are almost perfectly equal) occured. -
Our area is expected to avoid any direct effects from tropical activity through the weekend, but Meteorologist Ray Hawthorne is following three areas in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.
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Hurricane Ida rapidly gained strength right before it hit Louisiana this weekend. Abnormally hot water in the Gulf of Mexico acted as fuel for the storm.
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Ida weakened to a tropical storm Monday morning in southern Mississippi, and outer bands from the former major hurricane are forecast to spread across the Florida Panhandle Monday posing a tornado and flash flood risk.
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The tropics are likely to take a break most of this week after Tropical Storm Henri's landfall in New England Sunday afternoon. That break is expected to be short-lived.
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With Tropical Storm Henri strengthening, resort areas such as Martha's Vineyard, Block Island and Nantucket are in the watch zone this weekend, as are parts of Long Island and Connecticut.
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The global combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA, the hottest in 142 years of record-keeping.
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Tropical Depression Fred is expected to regain tropical storm strength by the time it approaches Southwest Florida Friday night, and a Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for the Gulf Coast from Bonita Beach south to the Florida Bay, including the entire Florida Keys.
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Wind and surge impacts could vary greatly in some places depending on Fred's track, but the greatest hazard to most Floridians will be heavy rain and potential flooding.
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The system became a tropical storm late Tuesday night and remains on a path that could bring it near the greater Tampa Bay region by Sunday morning.
