Woman accused of setting fire inside MDSO station faces 11 attempted murder charges
A 36-year-old woman was taken into custody Friday afternoon after setting a small fire inside a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office station, authorities said.
Before joining Local 10, Michael served as Senior Emergency Management Specialist for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). There he directed the agency’s plans for responding to disasters of all kinds, but most importantly hurricanes, for the southeast U.S. Lowry has 20 years of experience in tropical weather research, forecasting, and emergency management. Prior to joining FEMA, he served as a subject matter expert on hurricanes and tropical meteorology, most recently as visiting scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC), through its partnership with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Lowry served as on-air Hurricane Specialist and Tropical Program Lead for The Weather Channel (TWC). While at TWC, he provided network coverage for countless hurricanes and nor’easters, filing reports for NBC Nightly News, TODAY, MSNBC, and CNBC. Lowry also served as a lead scientist at the NHC in Miami, where he was responsible for the development of new tropical cyclone-related products, including new watches and warnings, for the National Weather Service (NWS). Other positions have included Senior Scientist at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in Alexandria, Virginia, and emergency manager and meteorologist for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, where he provided support for nine presidentially declared disasters, including seven hurricane disaster declarations in 2004 and 2005. Lowry is the recipient of the 2013 National Hurricane Conference Outstanding Achievement Award in Meteorology. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in meteorology from Florida State University.
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Cierra temporada de huracanes 2025: la primera sin impacto directo en EE.UU. en una década
La temporada 2025 fue la primera desde 2015 sin huracanes tocando tierra en EE.UU., pero dejó tres Categoría 5 y más de 100 muertos en el Caribe.
The tumultuous 2025 hurricane season comes to a close
The first season in a decade without a U.S. hurricane landfall also featured three Category 5 hurricanes, including Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record.
This hurricane season two forecast models stand out, but for very different reasons
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season appears to be winding down.
Melissa brushes Bermuda overnight and headed out to sea
Melissa’s 10-day run as a tropical cyclone – culminating in a catastrophic Category 5 strike on western Jamaica Tuesday – will end Friday as it transitions into a powerful non-tropical storm, clipping Atlantic Canada’s southern Avalon Peninsula tonight before heading swiftly out to sea.
Melissa racing away from the Bahamas, hurricane warning issued for Bermuda
After weakening to a Category 1 hurricane after its passage across the rugged terrain of eastern Cuba, by Wednesday afternoon Melissa was recovering over the waters around the speckled islands of the southeastern Bahamas.
Melissa strikes eastern Cuba as a major hurricane after ravaging western Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa, which devastated western Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded, briefly restrengthened between Jamaica and Cuba late Tuesday before making a second landfall shortly after 3 a.m. ET Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane about 40 miles west of Santiago de Cuba – the country’s second most populous city – in eastern Cuba.
Hurricane Melissa slams Jamaica, catastrophic conditions ongoing
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa set a collision course early Tuesday with Jamaica and made landfall at New Hope, Jamaica, on the island country’s southwest coast at peak strength around noontime local on Tuesday.
Melissa takes aims at Jamaica as a monster Category 5 hurricane
Hurricane Melissa put on a rare show overnight, tipping the scales as a Category 5 hurricane by the predawn hours Monday while drifting only about 100 miles south of Jamaica over the deep, warm waters of the central Caribbean.
Melissa undergoing extreme rapid intensification, catastrophic impacts expected for Jamaica
Melissa wasted no time harvesting a rich reservoir of warm water in the central Caribbean south of Jamaica on Saturday to intensify at an extreme rate – from a 70 mph tropical storm Saturday morning to a 140 mph Category 4 hurricane before sunrise Sunday.
Melissa to strengthen and drift near or south of Jamaica as a major hurricane by Sunday
Tropical Storm Melissa grounded to a halt over the central Caribbean about 150 miles south of Jamaica and Haiti early Friday.
Melissa forecast to rapidly strengthen into a major hurricane this weekend
Tropical Storm Melissa continued to struggle early Thursday as it crawled several hundred miles south of Jamaica and Haiti over the central Caribbean.
Melissa to meander, raising the risk of significant flash flooding for the north-central Caribbean
Tropical Storm Melissa formed late Tuesday morning about 300 miles south of Haiti over the central Caribbean but remains disorganized as it contends with persistent wind shear.
Melissa comes together in the Caribbean, bringing the threat of major flooding this week
The strong tropical disturbance designated Invest 98L over the weekend is coming together as Tropical Storm Melissa Tuesday morning, and the National Hurricane Center expects to issue its first forecast on the Atlantic hurricane season’s 13th named storm shortly.
Development likely this week in the Caribbean, but future path remains unclear
A tropical wave that moved into the eastern Caribbean on Sunday – designated Invest 98L by the National Hurricane Center on Saturday – is becoming increasingly organized and will likely become a tropical depression or tropical storm in the next day or two as it slows over the central Caribbean.
Looking ahead to next week in the Caribbean
A strong late-season tropical wave now moving through the central Atlantic could develop once it enters the Caribbean as upper-level winds turn increasingly conducive next week.