By David Muir We don’t really need a hurricane to lose power. That can happen for plenty of reasons, and usually at the wrong time, right? The good news? There are several options that will…
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(Reprinted from the New York Times) Heat Affects Older People More. Here’s How to Stay Safe. https://www.nytimescom/2023/07/20/well/live/heat-illness-safety-older-people.html?smid=nytcore-android-share If you’re over 65, it’s important to take high temperatures seriously. We are experiencing the hottest days in…
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Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are watching a weather system brewing in the eastern Atlantic this weekend and give it high odds of formation into something more significant. The system is currently…
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By Meri-Kathryn Peed Living in Florida, we have the wonderful opportunity to learn about an abundance of wildlife. Some of us have our favorites: shore birds, freshwater birds. butterflies, deer, rabbits, fish, dolphins, manatees and…
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Tonight’s sunset was a beaut! From David Muir From Ken Wasmer
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As expected, Tropical Storm Nichole and high-tide produced inundation on waterfront properties along the west-side of the Marsh Creek community fronting the Matanzas River this morning. These pictures were taken at 9:46am as water intruded…
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It was Tuesday afternoon, and the Atlantic was beginning to churn with high winds and dangerous waves, the early envoys of Tropical Storm Nichole. But surfers, and especially kite surfers, don’t see danger in these…
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Here are a few scenes of Nichole’s arrival around 10;30am this morning, and shortly after high tide. The beach and pier were being pounded by high, rough surf, and inside Marsh Creek, high water levels…
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All night long, the winds blew, signalling the approach of Tropical Storm Nichole. The storm will make its presence better known as today wears on, bringing 30-40 mph winds and rainfall increasing this afternoon and…
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Shortly after 10am this morning, the National Hurricane Center issued a Hurricane Watch notification for Coastal St. Johns County, meaning hurricane force winds are possible in the area within the next 48 hours. More certain…
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A visit to the beach at the end of Pope Road Wednesday produced a shocker, five days after Hurricane Ian cleared out of our area. The hurricane, while well offshore by the time it reached…
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There have been plenty of photos and videos to emerge since Hurricane Ian wreaked almost unimaginable destruction along the SW Florida coastline. As you know, Fort Myers was particularly hard hit from a storm that…
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At 5pm, the Hurricane Center declared Ian had returned to a Cat 1 hurricane. The storm pushed off-land into the Atlantic in the afternoon near the Kennedy Space Center as a tropical storm. As expected,…
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At 11:20 am, the National Weather Service issued a FLASH FLOOD WARNING for our area, and at mid-afternoon extended the advisory until 9:00 pm this evening. Water was already pushing into Marsh Creek from the…
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At 6am this morning, St. Johns County bridges, including the 312 bridge from Anastasia Island to the mainland, were still open. The county expected to be forced to close them “later today”. “We are playing…
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“I’ve covered maybe 91 hurricanes”, said the Weather Channel’s 20-year veteran Mike Seidel, “but this is the worst one I’ve seen”. Seidel was reporting from Fort Myers mid-afternoon today, moments before Hurricane Ian made landfall…
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At 6am this morning, St. Johns County’s partial evacuation plan got underway affecting St. Augustine, St. Augustine Beach, Ponte Vedra and areas along the St. Johns River – Zones A, B, and part of F….
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Late this afternoon, as winds began picking up and lines stretched at gas stations, St. Johns County declared an evacuation order at 6am tomorrow morning for coastal St. Johns. That order includes Marsh Creek. While…
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Significant Flooding Anticipated St. Johns County announced a Tropical Storm Watch (see below) at 5pm today, just as the updated National Hurricane Center tracking showed another easterly shift in Hurricane Ian’s expected path, potentially bringing…
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At 5am this morning, Hurricane Ian was on track to come uncomfortably close to St. Augustine Wednesday morning after a slight eastward tilt to its expected path mid-week. Tropical force, and potentially even hurricane force…
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