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Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center says.
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Updated: Sep. 24, 2023 at 4:39 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and BRIAN WITTE and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press
Areas from Virginia to New Jersey are likely to receive 1 to 3 inches of rain and up to 5 inches in some places, forecasters said.
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Updated: Sep. 23, 2023 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia have experienced flooding after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island.
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Updated: Sep. 22, 2023 at 10:20 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The intensifying weather system spun up into a tropical storm on Friday afternoon.
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Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 9:48 PM CDT
|By Madison Glaser and Gray News staff
The Barbers live in a secluded area off a beaten path in Perry, Florida. Their home is full of memorabilia for a lost loved one.
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Updated: Sep. 17, 2023 at 10:32 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Storm surges were expected to subside on Sunday after being forecast as up to 3 feet (0.91 meters) on Saturday along coastal areas, the hurricane center said.
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Updated: Sep. 16, 2023 at 9:17 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVID SHARP, ROBERT F. BUTAKY and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press
The storm brought high winds, rough surf and torrential rains to a large swath of New England and Maritime Canada.
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Updated: Sep. 15, 2023 at 7:50 PM CDT
|By Chris Smith
Hurricane Ivan made landfall 19 years ago and produced more than a dozen tornadoes resulting in 6 fatalities in our area.
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Updated: Sep. 15, 2023 at 7:23 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press
After days of torrential rain, flooding, sinkholes and tornadoes, New England is about to face Hurricane Lee.
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Updated: Sep. 14, 2023 at 8:32 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Rainfall earlier this week inundated parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
7-Day Forecast
Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 7:25 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
Lee was expected to eventually pass just west of Bermuda, prompting forecasters to issue a tropical storm watch for the island.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2023 at 10:03 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Dangerous surf and rip currents were expected to hit most of the U.S. East Coast starting Sunday.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2023 at 10:16 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Lee is expected to strengthen and reach winds of up to 180 mph
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 4:55 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Lee is the 12th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 3:05 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The dangerous currents were spawned by the remnants of hurricanes Franklin and Idalia, officials said.
Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with 125 mph winds, flooding streets, snapping trees and cutting power
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press
As the eye moved inland, high winds shredded signs, blew off roofs, sent sheet metal flying and snapped tall trees.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 7:24 PM CDT
|By Chris Smith
Rain chances will remain elevated over the next several days with drier weather returning into next week.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 1:41 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press
Florida residents are evacuating from homes in low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast as forecasters predict that Idalia will hit the state as a major hurricane.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 9:17 PM CDT
|By Marisa Gjuraj
As the state braces for Idalia, Florida Power and Light is prepping restoration crews, they are in Chipley at a processing site.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 7:18 PM CDT
|By Chris Smith
Idalia will make landfall Wednesday morning as a major hurricane along the Forgotten Coast/Big Bend/Nature Coast areas of Florida.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 8:12 AM CDT
|By Ryan Michaels
Scattered storms will be in abundance for NWFL through the midday and afternoon today after a quick morning shower for some.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Idalia is expected to start affecting Florida with hurricane-force winds as soon as late Tuesday and arrive on the coast by Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 7:33 PM CDT
|By WJHG Newsroom
Franklin and Gulf County Schools will be closed on Tuesday, Aug. 29 and Wednesday, Aug. 30 ahead of Idalia.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 7:06 PM CDT
|By WJHG Newsroom
Bay County Sheriff’s Office ready to help with Idalia
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 1:48 PM CDT
|By WJHG Newsroom
As we learn more about the developing Idalia, we’ll continue to update you with the latest warnings, updates, and resources available around the state.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 10:23 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
On Monday, Idalia was near the coast of Cuba and on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S. in the coming days, the National Hurricane Center said.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 9:48 AM CDT
|By Ryan Michaels, Megan Kennedy, Chris Smith and Daniel Nyman
Tropical Storm Idalia is likely to strengthen into a hurricane today and forecast to become a major hurricane in the coming days.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 4:26 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Forecasters say they expect Idalia to become a hurricane on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico and then curve northeast and approach Florida.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2023 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Currently, it would be named “Idalia” if no other tropical storm form before it.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2023 at 12:24 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO
The storm began to slowly spin away late Wednesday afternoon from the island of Hispaniola that the Dominican Republic shares with Haiti after dumping heavy rain for several hours.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2023 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and AUDREY McAVOY, CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press
As of Monday, there were 115 people confirmed dead, according to Maui police.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2023 at 9:50 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The Boeing 737 experienced “an issue with its landing gear” after landing at John Wayne Airport in Orange County at 11:15 p.m. Sunday.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2023 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press
Hot water and hot air were both crucial factors that enabled Hilary’s rapid growth — steering it on an unusual but not quite unprecedented path.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2023 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press
Forecasters warned that “continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding” was expected over portions of the southwestern U.S.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2023 at 11:30 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DAMIAN DOVARGANES and JORDI LEBRIJA
The National Hurricane Center predicts Hilary will unleash flooding across a normally dry region, swirling north into Nevada by Monday morning.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 11:01 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Two other tropical storms, Fernanda and Greg, were far out to sea in the Pacific.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 1:31 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
From 1963 to 2012, storm surge was responsible for almost half of the hurricane deaths.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By CNN Newsource staff
The report comes as coastal areas join much of the rest of the nation in this summer’s blistering heat wave.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2023 at 12:05 PM CDT
|By Ryan Michaels
Colorado State University's August 2023 Atlantic Hurricane season update maintains an above average outlook.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2023 at 8:37 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The Atlantic hurricane season officially runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2023 at 3:56 PM CDT
|By Daniel Nyman
The experts at Colorado State University updated their forecast and increased the number of storms they are expecting.
Tropical Storm Cindy forms behind Bret in an early and aggressive start to Atlantic hurricane season
Updated: Jun. 23, 2023 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
Some forecasters blamed unusually high sea temperatures for the rare development.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2023 at 10:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press
Tropical Storm Bret bore down on the eastern Caribbean on Thursday night as islands shut down and braced for torrential downpours, landslides and flooding.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2023 at 7:02 AM CDT
|By Ryan Michaels
Tropical Storm Bret heads toward the Caribbean where it will likely fall apart. Tropical Depression #4 soon to be Tropical Storm Cindy will head toward the Northern Atlantic and doesn't appear to be a threat to the USA.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2023 at 11:14 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
It would be only the second hurricane to form in the tropical Atlantic in June in nearly a century, an expert said.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2023 at 1:04 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began Thursday and runs through Nov. 30.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2023 at 11:15 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
A tropical depression formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, which is the official first day of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2023 at 6:23 PM CDT
|By Talor Maree
Many residents say they’re prepared and ready to make quick moves in the event of a hurricane. That’s because a lot of them were here during Hurricane Michael. But they aren’t the only ones getting ready for the season. In fact, emergency officials have been preparing all year.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 9:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and GRACE GARCES BORDALLO and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press
Chainsaws buzzed Friday as neighbors helped each other clear toppled trees and began cleaning the wreckage of Typhoon Mawar, which walloped Guam as the strongest typhoon to hit the island in over two decades but appeared to have passed without leaving death or massive destruction in its wake.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 12:57 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, saying there’s a 40% chance of a near-normal season, 30% chance of an above average season and a 30% chance of a below normal season.