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Wilfredo Lee/ASSOCIATED PRESS/APResearch suggests cold-stunned iguanas falling from trees in Florida could be rarer in the future — both due to climbing global temperatures from unchecked climate change and a shift in cold hardiness in the lizards. -
Two storm systems will bring a lot of wet weather to Florida this week and some very chilly temperatures this weekend.
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Rounds of strong and heavy thunderstorms will continue to pass through parts of the Panhandle until late afternoon
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Phil Klotzbach, senior research scientist at CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, said he characterizes this season as “the most abnormal, normal hurricane season on record.”
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The six-month hurricane season will end Nov. 30. While the early part of the season was relatively quiet, the Category 4 Hurricane Ian devastated parts of Southwest Florida and swept across the state at the end of September. State officials are looking at potential changes after Florida got hit by its deadliest storm in nearly nine decades. -
Travel in the days leading up to Thanksgiving could be slowed due to periods of heavy rain in parts of Florida through Wednesday.
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Florida is looking at a warmer and drier than average winter season according to outlooks from NOAA. This follows a trend of higher-than-average temperatures in the last month and a drought persisting on the Panhandle due to low precipitation rates. Hurricane Nicole helped alleviate dry conditions mostly across Central and North Central Florida.
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The winter months tend to be the driest months of the year in Florida and this can be exacerbated during a La Niña winter. For Panhandle locations, drought conditions are expected to worsen. Severe drought is already present in a small corner of Florida according to the most recent update from the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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Most researchers agree it’s not valid to point to a single storm and say it was 'caused' by the warming world — too many variables. But there’s a growing consensus that the sea level rise and higher temperatures in the last hundred years have already impacted storms like Ian and may continue to do so in the future.
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Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2 million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast.
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Major Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa shortly after 3 PM Wednesday and more than twelve hours later, it is still bringing flash flooding to central Florida before an eventual exit along the east coast.
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Updated September 28, 2022 at 3:46 PM ET Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida's Lee County on Wednesday afternoon. The category 4 hurricane produced winds of 150 miles per hour and storm surge over 7 feet high in Naples before coming ashore.
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Hurricane Ian is forecast to make landfall along the southwest Florida Coast Wednesday as a major hurricane.
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On Thursday evening, the eye of Ian -- by then a tropical storm -- could be strandling the Lake and Orange county line, according to the National Hurricane Center.
