2022 Hurricane Season

Phil Klotzbach, senior research scientist at CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, said he characterizes this season as “the most abnormal, normal hurricane season on record.”

Florida leaders are looking at potential changes after the state was hit by its deadliest storm in nearly nine decades.

The federal rule prohibits improvements to hurricane-damaged homes exceeding 50% of their market value unless the entire structure is updated to meet current building codes.

The rocket was kept on the launch pad despite Hurricane Nicole sweeping through the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday.

Several bridges and roads on the Space Coast and First Coast are closed Thursday following flooding and erosion from Tropical Storm Nicole.

Instead of noon Saturday, county supervisors of elections have until noon Monday to submit the first set of unofficial returns from Tuesday’s elections.

Nicole made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with estimated maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour early Thursday morning near Vero Beach.

Big Bend area schools will be closed tomorrow due the advancement of Tropical Storm Nicole.

As of 7 am this morning, Tropical Storm Nicole is located east of the Bahamas moving westward at 13 mph. Tropical Storm force winds are expected to increase along the Florida Atlantic coast this morning and will continue spread across the Peninsula this afternoon and evening. Nicole is forecast to make landfall late this evening in SE Florida as a hurricane with winds up to 75 mph.

Tropical Storm Nicole is just shy of hurricane strength late Tuesday night, but hurricane warnings are in place along the east coast ahead of a midweek landfall.