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Tropical Storm Bertha’s four-day stint as a disorganized and largely unmemorable tropical cyclone came to an end late Thursday, as its circulation unraveled over eastern Texas.
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The low-topped cloud swirl of Tropical Storm Bertha officially crossed the southeastern Louisiana coastline about 50 miles east of New Orleans in neighboring St. Bernard Parish Wednesday afternoon around 2 PM local time with maximum winds of 45 mph.
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Bertha remained a weak, disorganized and lopsided tropical storm Wednesday morning, with its largely innocuous center swirl — absent any organized thunderstorms – sliding westward toward southeastern Louisiana.
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NOAA Hurricane Hunters investigating Tropical Depression Two Monday evening, centered about 120 miles south of Panama City Beach, Florida, in the northeastern Gulf, found winds of 40 mph – the threshold for tropical storm strength – supporting its upgrade to Tropical Storm Bertha, the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.
Tropical Depression Two, which formed Sunday morning over the northeastern Gulf about 150 miles west of Tampa, is expected to become Tropical Storm Bertha, the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, later today.
Tropical Depression 2 is forecast strengthen into a tropical storm on Monday before threatening Florida’s Panhandle.
The National Hurricane Center has issued advisories for Tropical Depression Two in the northern Gulf.
The National Hurricane Center continues to monitor an elongated corridor of low pressure stretching down the southeast U.S. coast and into the northeastern Gulf – with its south side tucked away in the elbow of Florida’s Big Bend – for possible tropical development starting this weekend into early next week.
The National Hurricane Center added two areas to watch to its tropical outlook map on Wednesday — one that we discussed in Wednesday morning’s newsletter over the northeastern Gulf to off the southeast U.S. — and another Wednesday afternoon in the far eastern Atlantic only a few hundred miles off Africa.
The area that we first mentioned in this newsletter on Monday and discussed in yesterday’s newsletter was added to the National Hurricane Center’s tropical weather outlook Wednesday morning.
It’s been a very quiet first half of July across the Atlantic, as we previewed it would be back on July 1.
In most hurricane seasons, we watch for the storms that form in the Atlantic’s main development region, or MDR, the primary hurricane belt stretching from Africa through the Caribbean south of 20 degrees north latitude, where most of our strongest and longest-lived hurricanes form.
It’s been a largely snoozy start to the Atlantic hurricane season, and that doesn’t look to change anytime soon.
The biggest dust outbreak of the year is trying to make up for lost time, with the first round of dust reaching the sands of South Florida yesterday and even thicker dust reinforcements moving over Florida and into the Gulf by this weekend, settling over coastal Texas by the early to middle part of next week.
Hurricane experts at Colorado State University (CSU) – the team that pioneered seasonal hurricane outlooks back in the 1980s – issued their July update Wednesday morning, revising earlier predictions for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season downward for a second time since their initial forecast in April.
It’s hard to ignore El Niño’s outsized influence on the Atlantic hurricane season, especially this year with what’s on pace to be the strongest El Niño on record. So if lately this newsletter is beginning to feel a little bit like an El Niño blog, it’s for good reason.
A strong El Niño is a foregone conclusion this year, as even NOAA’s main climate change-adjusted index for tracking its progress – known as the Relative Oceanic Niño Index or RONI – is fast approaching the threshold necessary to classify this a strong El Niño.
The Western Pacific typhoon season is off to a scorching start in 2026, with four typhoons and one super typhoon (with winds of at least 150 mph) recorded so far.
Hurricane season doesn’t guarantee us any holidays, but the 4th of July is one of those rare exceptions when the coast is clear in most years.
Typically by July we begin to get a better sense of the overall health of the Atlantic basin and how it’ll affect the peak months of the season in August, September, and October. This July the skies and seas of the Atlantic look beaten, bruised, and battered, which bodes well for curtailing overall hurricane activity in the months ahead.
A weak area of low pressure along a stalled front over the western Atlantic, about 400 miles to the southeast of the Carolinas, remains disorganized, and little to no development is expected over the next few days as the system drifts westward toward the southeast U.S.
Over the weekend the National Hurricane Center added to its tropical outlook the system off the southeast U.S. we began discussing in this newsletter last Thursday.
Despite impactful flooding last week across the central Gulf Coast from the remnants of short-lived Tropical Storm Arthur — rainfall totals topping two feet in some places, bringing rainfall totals since May to nearly 50 inches across parts of southern Louisiana and Mississippi — it’s been largely crickets across the Atlantic since the start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.
As June transitions to July next week, we’ll be keeping an eye off the shores of the southeast U.S. for an elongated area of low pressure tied to a stalled frontal zone that could spawn an area to watch by the middle to latter part of next week.
It’s the time of year giant plumes of dust heaved off the African continent from the Sahara Desert travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic, sprinkling down on the shoreline sands of Florida and the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The 2025 hurricane season was a coming-of-age story for AI weather models, which have been around in some capacity since around 2022.
June is historically the least active month of the hurricane season, but that doesn’t mean the first month of the season can’t bring its fair share of issues.
Tropical Storm Arthur lasted only 12 hours as a named storm on Wednesday – one of the shortest-lived named storms in Atlantic basin records – but its stormy, water-logged remnants dragged a slug of torrential rains and severe weather through parts of the Deep South on Thursday, leading to widespread, devastating flooding from south and central Louisiana to southeastern Mississippi and lower Alabama.
Short-lived Tropical Storm Arthur – which formed late Wednesday morning along the middle Texas coast – moved inland near Galveston by Wednesday afternoon and lost its tropical designation by Wednesday evening as its circulation quickly unraveled.
The National Hurricane Center late Wednesday morning upgraded Potential Tropical Cyclone One to Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.
A large tropical disturbance spinning inland over the mountains of northern Mexico – in part the remnants of once-Tropical Storm Cristina that crossed Central America late last week and now dubbed Invest 90L by the National Hurricane Center, the first Invest of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season – is expected to briefly re-emerge over the coastal waters off Texas late Tuesday and Wednesday where odds are increasing it could make a brief run as the season’s first tropical storm.
A tropical disturbance that moved into northern Mexico over the weekend – partly the leftover spin of once-Tropical-Storm Cristina that crossed Central America from the eastern Pacific – will hitch a ride along an unusually strong and slow-moving cold front this week through the Deep South.
The disturbance that we began previewing in this newsletter over a week ago and that was first mentioned by NHC on Wednesday is now centered over the Bay of Campeche in the extreme southern Gulf.
On Wednesday, the team of hurricane experts at Colorado State University (CSU) issued their June forecast update for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, reducing their predictions from their earlier April outlook, and now calls for the lowest tropical activity seen across the basin since 2015.
A disturbance we first detailed in this newsletter a week ago is now being tagged by the National Hurricane for low development odds later this week in the southern reaches of the Gulf before moving inland over eastern Mexico late Saturday into Sunday.
Though El Niño is responsible for intensifying many extreme weather patterns associated with climate change – worsening extreme drought, heavy rainfall, and heatwaves globally – its impact on the Atlantic hurricane season is generally welcome news to those of us living along hurricane alley.
In newsletters last week, we previewed the possibility of an active eastern Pacific seeding an uptick in storminess across the western Caribbean or southern Gulf later this week.
The first full week of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season will close without any named storms.
The opening volleys of the 2026 hurricane season have unsurprisingly come from the eastern Pacific so far, where Amanda – the basin’s first named storm – formed late yesterday morning, and two more systems are poised to develop into next week off the Pacific coast.
The Atlantic hurricane season usually doesn’t come roaring out of the gate, and, as we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, June is historically the least active month of the season for the basin.
June is historically the least active month of the 6-month hurricane season.
While hurricane season is only just beginning, preparations at Food For The Poor started months ago.
Today marks day one of the 183-day Atlantic hurricane season, which runs through Nov. 30. Forecasters expect overall hurricane activity across the Atlantic basin to be softened this season by a potentially historic El Niño building in the eastern equatorial Pacific, which acts to deter would-be storms on the Atlantic side by ramping up hostile wind shear.
With hurricane season beginning Monday, Local 10 wants to make sure you’re prepared.
With the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season just days away, public officials gathered Tuesday at the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County to remind residents across South Florida to prepare now and have a plan in place before a storm threatens the area.
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Hurricane researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) – the group that pioneered seasonal hurricane predictions in the 1980s – issued their first outlook of 2026 Thursday morning, predicting slightly below average named storm and hurricane activity for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30.
Hurricane season is right around the corner, and one South Florida city is already helping residents prepare -- especially families with autistic children.
Local 10 Hurricane Specialist and Storm Surge Expert Michael Lowry and his wife, Kait, have welcomed their third child.
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.
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season appears to be winding down.
Project DYNAMO has already had multiple relief flights to Montego Bay, Jamaica, to help those affected by Hurricane Melissa, and a Local 10 News crew is joined them Monday on their latest relief trip.
Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was set to reopen to relief flights on Thursday, but not to commercial flights yet, so many tourists and Jamaicans were disappointed to have to turn back.
Hurricane Melissa cut through the southeast Bahamas Wednesday and is expected to pass just west of Bermuda by late Thursday.
Hurricane Melissa slammed into eastern Cuba on Wednesday, leaving behind widespread flooding, power outages and heavy damage — and sparking concern among Cuban Americans in South Florida.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday in eastern Cuba.
A drone recorded video of destruction on Wednesday in southwestern Jamaica’s St. Elizabeth parish.
As the cleanup started on Wednesday in southwest Jamaica, fallen trees and debris blocked roads in Montego Bay. Hotels and homes were damaged. Bus stops destroyed.
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.
The Greater Good Charities, a Seattle-based nonprofit with a location in Wilton Manors, was ready to help Jamaicans after Hurricane Melissa.
Desmond McKenzie, Jamaica’s local government minister, said on Wednesday morning that rescuers were helping people who were trapped on roofs after Hurricane Melissa caused flooding.
Hurricane Melissa was making its way across Cuba on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record.
Flooding from Hurricane Melissa killed 25 people in Haiti while the storm still churned across Cuba on Wednesday after leaving Jamaica with widespread damage and power outages, officials say.
From his Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant in Margate, Karl Gordon was hungry for updates from Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa made landfall at about 1 p.m. Tuesday in New Hope.
Hurricane Melissa was still passing through Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon when videos started to show its destructive force.
The Miami Heat, along with the Micky & Madeleine Arison Family Foundation and Carnival Corporation, announced a $1 million donation to Direct Relief to help recovery efforts in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa.
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.
The hospitality industry, a cornerstone of the Jamaican economy, braced for Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s powerful hit.
Hurricane Melissa will make landfall Tuesday morning in Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, and organizations across South Florida are already collecting donations to help those who are being impacted.
Local 10 News reporter Aaron Maybin is in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm.
Hurricane Melissa intensified Tuesday before making landfall in Jamaica, where officials and residents braced for catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides from the Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned Monday that Hurricane Melissa could cause catastrophic flash flooding and numerous landslides in parts of Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola.
Miramar and Lauderhill officials announced efforts to help Jamaicans who are preparing to deal with Hurricane Melissa’s fury.
Juici Patties, a Jamaican restaurant chain with dozens of locations, is accepting disaster relief donations to be delivered to the Caribbean island after Hurricane Melissa.
Food For The Poor, a Christian nonprofit organization based in Coconut Creek, was accepting donations on Monday for Jamaicans dealing with Hurricane Melissa.
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.
Hurricane Melissa is now a massive Category 5 storm as it nears Jamaica, where it will bring life-threatening storm surge.
There are emergency command centers across the island of Jamaica where leaders will continue meeting as Hurricane Melissa approaches and while it’s making impact.
Global Empowerment Mission is one of several organizations that jumps into action when a natural disaster is on the way.
The city of Miramar is doing what it can to help the residents of Jamaica who are preparing for Hurricane Melissa.
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.
People in Jamaica are being told to seek shelter as Hurricane Melissa nears.
Residents and visitors across Jamaica are bracing for Tropical Storm Melissa, which is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane, bringing heavy rain, strong winds, and the threat of flooding and landslides.
Tropical Storm Melissa grounded to a halt over the central Caribbean about 150 miles south of Jamaica and Haiti early Friday.
Tropical Storm Melissa was nearly stationary in the central Caribbean early Friday, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane while unleashing catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in southern Haiti.
Parts of the Caribbean are bracing for Tropical Storm Melissa.
Tropical Storm Melissa continued to struggle early Thursday as it crawled several hundred miles south of Jamaica and Haiti over the 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.
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.