As Tropical Storm Nana weakened today, another tropical depression formed in the Caribbean Sea and forecasters expect it to become the season's next hurricane. ...more

October 13, 2008

It's getting into the heart of August and hurricane season and tropical depressions are lining up out in the Atlantic, so I shouldn't have been all that surprised when an angry wind whipped through the house and circled around my head. ...more

August 13, 2008

A pair of tropical waves in the Atlantic Ocean have the potential to become tropical depressions over the next several days, the National Hurricane Center said. ...more

August 11, 2008

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are watching three tropical disturbances, two in the Atlantic Ocean and one in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

August 3, 2008

SEBRING –– As far as rainfall goes, the last two weeks were rather wet for Avon Park and downright soggy for Lake Placid. So soggy, in fact, that Highlands County Lakes Association Secretary John Ruggiero said he saw the lake, Lake Placid, rise about 10 inches from two weeks ago, which is about what the Archbold Biological Station's rain gauge recorded for that time period, according to the National Weather Service. "If we could even get 5 or 6 (inches) a week, that would be a wonderful thing for the lakes in our county," Ruggiero said. For those who long for the days when they could put a boat out on Lake Jackson, "this is just a spit in the bucket," association vice president Dave McCadam said. He added that the rain patterns over the past two weeks were not that far from normal for the northern part of the county. ...more

July 6, 2008

For the second year in a row, Florida was spared a hurricane, despite dire predictions by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists that had many people fearing a repeat of 2004 and 2005, when the state was battered repeatedly. ...more

December 4, 2007