2024 Hurricane Season

The region has already been saturated over the past several weeks and the storm is expected to bring up to a foot of rain as it impacts the Big Bend. That’s raising concerns about flooding—and has state and local agencies warning residents not to try to drive through flooded roads.

Tropical Storm Debby will travel over very warm waters Sunday and will likely reach the Big Bend as a hurricane early Monday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is warning of flooding statewide from Tropical Storm Debby, which is expected to make landfall as a hurricane Monday close to Tallahassee.

The latest National Hurricane Center forecast has the system making a landfall as a category 1 hurricane near the Big Bend area of Florida Monday afternoon. Some locations in North Florida could receive up to 12 inches of rainfall .

Tropical Depression 4 is officially Tropical Storm Debby, it enters the Gulf of Mexico and the ingredients are there for it to intensify, and slow down. Bad combination.

Meteorologist Megan Borowski from the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network says that the system is forecasted to enter the Gulf today and intensify. She says the system appears to be slightly more to the west than earlier forecasts predicted and that means it will stay over the Gulf longer.

Potential Tropical Cyclone #4 is expected to move into the eastern Gulf, paralleling the west coast of Florida. It may soon be named Debby.

A messy tropical wave will provide an uptick in rainfall starting this weekend. What are the chances of it developing?

The area of disturbed weather is located in the central Atlantic and tracking to the west-northwest.

Experts at Colorado State University have boosted their forecast for what was already expected to be an above-average hurricane season. It now calls for 25 named storms.