Tag: Hurricane season – NBC 6 South Florida

Hurricane season December 7, 2024 3:40 pm

Our most-asked question about this hurricane season: Helene and Milton's storm surge

Hurricane season ended last week and right on cue, the cold fronts have begun.

Weather December 7, 2024 12:04 pm

Our most-asked question about this hurricane season: Helene and Milton's storm surge

Why did Helene bring record storm surge to Tampa Bay while Milton did not? NBC6’s Steve MacLaughlin explains.

Hurricane season December 5, 2024 4:12 pm

Why meteorologists say the 2024 hurricane season clearly shows the start of a new era

The NBC6 First Alert Weather team analyze the storms of the 2024 hurricane season and reveal why this season shows start of new era.

Utility workers supervised by Florida Power and Light work on a transformer in Punta Gorda, Florida, on October 12, 2024. Hurricane Milton makes landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, on Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm. Officials confirm that at least 23 people die from the storm. Milton moves across the Florida peninsula on Thursday and over the Atlantic Ocean. More than 1.3 million customers are without power in Florida on Saturday, according to a utility tracker. (Photo by Thomas O’Neill/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Florida December 3, 2024 4:20 pm

FPL customers to pay about $12 more a month in 2025 to cover hurricane restoration

Customers of Florida’s largest power company will see a bump of about $12 in monthly bills next year to cover restoration costs from the 2024 hurricane season.

Hurricane season December 1, 2024 11:53 am

As hurricane season ends, researchers take stock of unexpected pattern

Saturday marks the official end of a busy and destructive hurricane season, in which the weeks that usually see peak activity were puzzlingly quiet.

HOUSTON, TEXAS – JULY 08: A vehicle is left abandoned in floodwater on a highway after Hurricane Beryl swept through the area on July 08, 2024 in Houston, Texas. Tropical Storm Beryl developed into a Category 1 hurricane as it hit the Texas coast late last night. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Hurricane season December 3, 2024 6:56 pm

Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end, leaving widespread damage in its wake

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close Saturday, bringing an end to a season that saw 11 hurricanes compared to the average seven, billions of dollars in damage and deaths and destruction hundreds of miles from where storms came ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Hurricane Beryl became the first Category 4 hurricane to form in the month...

Hurricane season November 29, 2024 8:37 pm

2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end

Hurricane Specialist John Morales breaks down what happened this hurricane season as it wraps up.

Hurricane season November 25, 2024 11:09 pm

As the season ends, the numbers tell the story. What might you do next year to prepare?

We’ve made it to the end. A novela-like season is rapidly winding down in the face of a beautiful stretch of late-November weather.

MIAMI, FLORIDA – JULY 01: John Cangialosi, Senior Hurricane Specialist at the National Hurricane Center, inspects a satellite image of Hurricane Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 season, at the National Hurricane Center on July 01, 2024 in Miami, Florida. On Monday afternoon, the storm, centered 30 miles west-northwest of Carriacou Island, became the strongest hurricane this early in the season in this area of the Atlantic.

Hurricane season November 25, 2024 4:50 pm

John Morales says ‘good riddance' to a busy and impactful 2024 hurricane season

The 2024 hurricane season is ending. It was catastrophically impactful.

IN SPACE – OCTOBER 8: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This Handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images’ editorial policy.) In this NASA handout, Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm at the time of this photograph, is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Yucatan Peninsula on October 8, 2024 seen from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

Hurricane season November 21, 2024 11:56 pm

John Morales: Human-caused ocean warming fueled recent hurricanes, study says

Ocean temperatures made higher by human-caused climate change are fueling more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic.

Hurricane season November 16, 2024 12:20 pm

John Morales on Tropical Storm Sara

The latest on Tropical Storm sara with John Morales.

Hurricane season November 15, 2024 10:03 am

Tropical Storm Sara update – Nov. 14, 2024

Meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin has the latest on Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.

Hurricane season November 15, 2024 6:26 pm

John Morales: A never-ending hurricane season and the good news for Florida

One more for the road? … this unending hurricane season had to deliver one more surprise in its waning days.

A NOAA satellite image of Tropical Storm Sara on Nov. 14, 2024.

Hurricane season November 14, 2024 11:31 pm

Tropical Storm Sara forms. Here's what determines if Florida could see impacts

Tropical depression 19 officially formed Thursday morning, and now sits less than 90 miles away from the Nicaragua/Honduras coastline, prompting hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings for those countries.

Hurricane season November 14, 2024 1:19 pm

Tropical Depression 19 forms: Here's what determines if Florida could see impacts

Tropical depression 19 officially formed Thursday morning, and now sits less than 90 miles away from the Nicaragua/Honduras coastline, prompting hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings for those countries.