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Tropical Depression 6 forms southwest of the Azores
The National Hurricane Center on Saturday issued advisories for Tropical Depression Six, located about 525 miles southeast of the Azores.
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Flooding causes travel delays across Broward County
Heavy thunderstorms caused widespread flooding and travel delays across parts of Broward County on Friday, with water covering streets near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and prompting drivers to slow down.
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100 years later, Miami museum exhibit looks back at devastating 1926 hurricane
A century after a devastating hurricane tore through Miami, a temporary museum exhibit is giving visitors a glimpse into what it was like to experience one of the most significant events in the city’s early history.
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Remembering Miami’s worst hurricane a century later
One hundred years ago this morning, residents and newcomers to America’s Playground in Miami Beach awoke to what early Miami transplant, journalist, and famed conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas described as “a sea of raving white water.”
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South Florida under marginal flood threat through the weekend
South Florida is under a marginal flood threat (level 1 out of 4) from Friday through the weekend.
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Game night forecast: Slight chance of severe weather before Canes take on Wake Forest
The Canes look to go 3-0 to start the season with a nighttime matchup vs. Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina tonight.
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Heavy rain brings flooding, difficult travel to Fort Lauderdale
Heavy rain-soaked Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning, leaving water-covered streets and creating difficult travel conditions in some areas as residents navigated the downpour.
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Development odds tick up for central Atlantic system
The low-pressure area spinning several hundred miles east of Bermuda – now designated Invest 98L by the National Hurricane Center – has become slightly better organized since Wednesday and NHC nudged up development odds again overnight.
Atlantic hurricane season’s struggles continue
The low-pressure system located over the central Atlantic early Wednesday about 600 miles east of Bermuda and being tagged for possible development by the National Hurricane Center remains convectively starved and appears to be in no hurry to organize.
Dolphins head to sunny California for Sunday showdown vs. 49ers
The Miami Dolphins will travel more than 3,000 miles to face the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday, but they can expect favorable weather when they arrive.
Will the Atlantic hurricane season break its 2-week silence this week?
It’s been 13 days since the Atlantic basin – which includes the Gulf, Caribbean, and wider Atlantic – has had any active systems, a remarkable an unprecedented dry spell coinciding with what are typically the most active weeks of the hurricane season.
New area to watch over the middle Atlantic this week
An area over the middle Atlantic that we first highlighted in this newsletter last Thursday as the next development candidate was added to the National Hurricane Center’s tropical weather outlook map early Sunday.
2026 Atlantic hurricane season breaks record for number of days without a hurricane
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season continues to make history in all the right ways.
The AI hurricane model that continues to blow away the competition
Artificial Intelligence continues to chisel away at the hurricane forecast problem, with Google’s DeepMind flagship AI hurricane model once again leading the pack in 2026.
Atlantic hurricane season silenced by El Niño at its traditional peak
For only the third time in reliable records (since at least 1950), the Atlantic hurricane season has fallen silent – absent any active tropical depressions, named storms, or hurricanes – in the week centered on its traditional September 10th peak.
Canes game night forecast: Hot & humid in South Florida with beautiful weather outside San Francisco
The Miami Hurricanes may be traveling over 3,000 miles from home for Friday night’s season opener against Stanford, but at least they’ll get away from the South Florida heat, humidity and storms.
Edouard washes out over Texas as the Atlantic hits a rare peak season pause
Edouard’s remnants continued to push inland over northeastern Texas early Thursday as it drags a tail of residual rainfall across flood-impacted communities of eastern Texas.
Edouard moving inland over east-central Texas, significant flash flooding northwest of Beaumont
Small but blustery Edouard made landfall Tuesday afternoon at 2:20 PM CT as a 60 mph tropical storm near the mouth of the Sabine River along the border of Texas and Louisiana.
Tropical Storm Edouard sliding toward the upper Texas and southwestern Louisiana coasts
Tropical Storm Edouard – the 5th named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season – formed Monday evening about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, but as of daybreak Tuesday had not strengthened since its christening 12 hours earlier.
Tropical system taking shape over the northern Gulf, expected to be weak and short-lived
A large thunderstorm complex that moved off southeastern Louisiana late last week combined with a mid-level spin over the northern Gulf to produce a small but punchy surface low that could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm later today or early Tuesday before moving inland over the Upper Texas Coast.
Tropical Storm Dolly forms, but quickly unravels east of the islands
Tropical Storm Dolly, the fourth named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, formed late Thursday morning over the central tropical Atlantic between Africa and the Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Dolly forms in the Atlantic far from land, forecasters say
Tropical Storm Dolly formed Thursday morning in the Atlantic far from land, forecasters confirmed.
Invest 96L trying to form, but unlikely to get very far
A strong tropical disturbance that rolled off Africa to start the week – since designated Invest 96L by the National Hurricane Center – is doing its best Little-Engine-That-Could impression this morning and appears to be nearing tropical depression or storm status in the eastern Atlantic.
South Florida should have great view of tonight’s partial lunar eclipse
Weather permitting, we should have a great view of Thursday night’s partial lunar eclipse.
Models turn cold on development odds for invest 96L this week
Invest 96L – a strong tropical wave plodding westward through the eastern Atlantic – has changed little in organization since Tuesday as model support for development this week continues to wane.
Invest 96L likely to form, but will it survive into next week?
The first Cabo-Verde-style storm is taking shape over the eastern Atlantic – a strong disturbance designated Invest 96L by the National Hurricane Center – and could become the Atlantic’s next named storm in the days ahead.
Atlantic hurricane season in store for a late August awakening?
After a historically slow start – the slowest in almost 40 years by overall tropical activity – the Atlantic hurricane season will make another attempt to jump start its engine this week, first with a disturbance in the central subtropical Atlantic and then later this week with a strong disturbance rolling westward through the main development region of the deep tropics between Africa and the Caribbean.
Disturbances dot the open Atlantic as future Moke forecast to slide south of Hawaii
We’ve been talking a lot about the subtropics this hurricane season – the zone of the Atlantic basin that includes the Gulf and the waters directly east and north of Florida and the Bahamas – as stealing a little more of the action this year due to El Niño’s stranglehold on the deep tropics. It’s no surprise then that all three named storms so far this hurricane season have originated in this subtropical arena.
Atlantic could perk up late next week as Hawaii eyes another weekend storm threat
The Atlantic will stay on a hurricane hiatus through at least the early part of next week.
Extreme Heat Warning in effect for Miami-Dade, Broward counties
An Extreme Heat Warning is now in effect for all of Miami-Dade and Broward counties through 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Hurricane-less so far in the Atlantic. How long will it last?
August is typically the month we start seeing hurricanes in the Atlantic if we haven’t already.
Miami records hottest day ever since 1942; record warmth possible again Wednesday
Tuesday, Aug. 18, will go down as the hottest day ever recorded in Miami since 1942!
Atlantic hurricane season struggles to find its footing
The Atlantic hurricane season is on hold until further notice.
Lala leaves a trail of catastrophic flooding across parts of Hawai’i
Hurricane Lala delivered a stinging blow to Hawaiʻi over the weekend, pummeling the island chain with repeated rounds of prolific rain topping 3 feet (36 inches) across the wetter windward (east-facing) mountains of the Big Island. Winds gusted to 70 to 90 mph on the Big Island and topped 74 mph and 85 mph respectively on Maui and Oahu as the center of Lala slid about 60 to 75 miles to their south on Saturday local time.
Smoke fills west Miami-Dade as brush fire continues to burn near Krome Avenue
Smoke continued to fill the air over western Miami-Dade Saturday morning as a brush fire burned through the Everglades.
The big island of Hawai’i under a hurricane warning as Lala approaches
Parts of Hawaii are bracing for Lala – the first named storm of the Central Pacific hurricane season – which is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by tomorrow morning local time and pass near or over the Big Island of Hawaiʻi during the day on Saturday.
Atlantic waves roll west as soon-to-be Lala heads toward Hawaii this weekend
The Atlantic continues to percolate into mid-August, with two healthy tropical waves slowly organizing over the open waters between Africa and the Caribbean while short-lived Cristobal unravels over the far North Atlantic Thursday.
WATCH: Local 10 captures meteor streaks lighting up Miami sky amid heat advisory
Early-morning meteor streaks briefly lit up the sky over South Florida on Wednesday, giving viewers and Local 10 News staff an unexpected celestial show before sunrise.
Tropical depression or storm could form later this week in the Atlantic
The National Hurricane Center has continued to up its odds that a tropical wave – an area of disturbed weather with a ripple in its wind field at around 10,000 feet up, resembling an ocean wave – will develop into a tropical depression or named storm later this week.
Atlantic looks to break its silence this week
On Saturday, the National Hurricane Center added to its 7-day development outlook an area we first mentioned in this newsletter 9 days earlier and updated you on throughout last week, including last Friday as models grew gradually supportive of development over the deep tropical Atlantic for later this week.
Signs of life in the Atlantic later next week
As we’ve been previewing in this newsletter for over a week now, forecast models are hinting at some signs of life over the traditional Main Development Region of the tropical Atlantic — between Africa and the Caribbean — as we approach the middle part of the month.
Hurricane season dry spell bleeds into mid-August
The Atlantic basin looks to stay in hibernation until at least mid August, something we previewed in this newsletter over a week ago.
Colorado State experts release final predictions for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season
The team of hurricane experts at Colorado State University that regularly issues seasonal hurricane predictions from April to August released its final outlook for the 2026 hurricane season Wednesday morning.
What August activity might reveal about the rest of the hurricane season
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is off to one of its slowest starts this century – behind only 2009 and 2007, assuming no additional tropical activity this week as expected.
Severe storm rips through carport in Miami Gardens
A severe storm caused damage in a Miami Gardens neighborhood on Monday afternoon.
Video shows lightning strike sparking blaze in Fort Lauderdale
Cellphone video showed a lightning strike starting a fire in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood early Monday morning.
Shaping up for a quiet first half of August across the Atlantic
August can be a two-faced month for the Atlantic hurricane season. The month’s opening salvo can be muffled or, in some years, non-existent, but by the closing week of August the basin is typically off to the races, climbing quickly to its early September peak.
Storms return for start of the week with localized flood threat
After a warm and humid start to the day with the chance for an isolated shower through the morning, temperatures will quickly heat into the lower 90s with a mix of sun and clouds.
U.S. 41 reopens after brush fire prompts closure
A brush fire burning near U.S. 41 in the Everglades forced the closure of the highway in both directions and prompted the precautionary evacuation of Everglades Safari Park on Sunday, authorities said.
Heat advisory issued for Miami-Dade, Broward as heat index tops 105 degrees
A heat advisory is in effect on Saturday for Miami-Dade and Broward counties as dangerous heat and humidity return to South Florida to start August.
August US hurricanes: Where do they form and where do they strike?
The odds of a U.S. hurricane strike ramp up dramatically in August compared to June and July.
Clues August will open with a whisper across the Atlantic
August is typically the month the Atlantic hurricane season comes alive, when bigtime hurricanes are no longer the exception and when we start paying closer attention to each tropical wave plodding westward across the Atlantic from Africa.
Pacific sizzles as the Atlantic simmers
Genevieve rapidly strengthened 75 mph in just 24 hours over the eastern Pacific over the weekend to top the scales as a Category 5 hurricane by the pre-dawn hours Monday. The frequency of such explosive strengthening is rare in the eastern Pacific – fewer than 1% of all “fixes” (6-hourly position and intensity estimates) made since 1970.
How El Niño transforms the typical pattern of Atlantic hurricane activity
We’ve written a lot about El Niño – the abnormal warming of waters across the eastern Pacific around the equator – in this newsletter this year. With it shaping up to be one of the strongest El Niños on record, we want to cover all angles of where we could see (and are already seeing) its fingerprints this hurricane season.
July 25: Hot, humid weather continues with a better chance for afternoon storms
The summer sizzle continues, but we’re throwing some extra thunderstorms into the mix, especially later on Saturday afternoon. Stay cool, and stay aware of lightning and heavy downpours nearby, particularly between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Bertha washes out over eastern Texas, Atlantic basin takes a hiatus next week
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.
Bertha breezes through southern Louisiana, expected to reach the upper Texas coast later today
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.
Bertha skims across the northern Gulf Coast with little fanfare
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.
Bertha forms, expected to remain weak and lopsided as it skirts the northern Gulf Coast
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 expected to become Bertha today, locally heavy rains to scrape the northern Gulf Coast
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 forecast to strengthen into tropical storm; threatens Florida Panhandle
Tropical Depression 2 is forecast strengthen into a tropical storm on Monday before threatening Florida’s Panhandle.
Tropical Depression 2 forms in northern Gulf, threatens Florida Panhandle
The National Hurricane Center has issued advisories for Tropical Depression Two in the northern Gulf.
Gulf system to bring heavy rains to Florida’s west coast and Big Bend starting this weekend
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.
National Hurricane Center flagging 2 areas in the Atlantic, development unlikely with either
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.
New area to watch over in the northern Gulf for early next week
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.
July dry spell continues this week across the Atlantic
It’s been a very quiet first half of July across the Atlantic, as we previewed it would be back on July 1.
Why the (sub) tropics matter a little more this hurricane season
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.
Heat advisory in effect as South Florida heat index could reach 110 degrees
A heat advisory will be in effect across parts of South Florida from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday as dangerously hot and humid conditions push heat index values into the triple digits.
Quiet end to another quiet week in the Atlantic
It’s been a largely snoozy start to the Atlantic hurricane season, and that doesn’t look to change anytime soon.
Saharan dust unloads on the Atlantic
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.
Forecasters lower predictions for the 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season
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.
El Niño’s earlier-than-usual influence on the Atlantic hurricane season
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.
How strong El Niños shift the hills and valleys of hurricane season
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.
Storm helps douse fire sparked by lightning at Sawgrass Recreation Park in Weston
A Friday night lightning strike sparked a small fire at Sawgrass Recreation Park, which quickly grew to about a half-acre before being extinguished by a passing thunderstorm, according to a spokesperson for the park.
Typhoon Bavi could become strongest storm of 2026 so far, takes aim at US Northern Mariana Islands
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.
Why US landfalls are a rare occurrence on the 4th of July
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.
Checking in on the health of the Atlantic
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.
Development odds dwindling for system off the southeast US
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.
Keeping an eye off the Carolina coast this week
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.
180-acre brush fire burns in west Broward County
A brush fire is burning in west Broward County Sunday evening.
New area of development possible off Southeast coast next week
A possible area of development is being monitored off the southeastern coast for next week.
June to end with the least active hurricane season start since 2019
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.
Watching for home brews to start July
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 Saharan dust season. Here’s how it’s shaping up
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.
AI weather models changing the hurricane forecast game
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 out like a lamb in the Atlantic
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.
Arthur’s remnants leave a trail of devastating flooding across the Deep South
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.