What We Dodged
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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Marsh Creek Floods as Ian Brushes By
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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Flash Flood Warning Extended, Bridge of Lions Closed, 312 Remains Open
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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Bridges Still Open as Tropical Storm Ian Arrives
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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Hurricane Ian Makes Landfall with Powerful Winds and Rain
“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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Ian Now a Cat-4 in Approach to Naples, Florida. SJC Evacuations underway.
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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Hurricane Ian Shifts Eastward Again – County Issues Evacuation Orders
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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Tropical Storm Watch Declared for St. Johns County
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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Hurricane Ian On Course to arrive Wednesday
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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Ian Arrives Mid-Week
At 5am, the National Hurricane Center gave our first Florida storm of the year a name: Ian. Tropical Storm Ian remains a threat to Florida, expecting to develop into a hurricane sometime Sunday. Once past…
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Watching Tropical Depression 9
The National Hurricane Center’s 5AM notice has added Tropical Depression 9 to its watch, with a forecast probability that the system will develop into a hurricane threatening Florida by the middle of next week. The…
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Spared again?
It appears that Florida will be spared. The National Hurricane Center tracking Tropical Storm Fiona has a confident trajectory showing the system moving away from the British Virgin Islands, brushing Puerto Rico and the Dominican…
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Tropical Depression 7
This new storm popped up on the radar this morning, dubbed “Tropical Depression 7” by the National Hurricane Center, which anticipates the system developing into a tropical storm later in the day. As storm years…
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Dangerous Heat Wave This Week
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is warning of a dangerous, life-threatening heat wave this week across multiple regions of the country. St. Johns County is one of them. As reported by the New…
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POTENTIAL TROPICAL CYCLONE ONE
June 2. It didn’t take long. Just one day into the 2022 Hurricane Season. POTENTIAL TROPICAL CYCLONE ONE Tropical storms have the potential of becoming hurricanes. Maybe not this one. But they can strengthen as…
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2022 Hurricane Season Underway (Officially)
Numerous forecasting centers, including the National Hurricane Center (NOAA), are predicting an above-normal hurricane season for 2022, which officially starts today and runs through the end of November. Frankly, “above normal” is beginning to feel…
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Stormy Clouds
A nice ridge of threatening clouds last night, resulting in only a burst of wind as the front slid by to the north.
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St. Johns County Hurricane Evacuation Zone Changes
St. Johns County’s hurricane evacuation zones have been updated as a result of data improvements by the National Hurricane Center. The new zones are effective immediately. Those living in coastal, waterfront, and low-lying areas will…
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Tropical Depression Fred
Tropical Depression Fred Potential Impacts per NWS Jacksonville: Under the current forecast track, squalls of rain coming in from the ocean along the east coast can be expected on Sunday and Monday. Tropical storm force…
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Climate change could cost condo boards billions. They aren’t ready for it.
The Surfside, Fla., building collapse is just one example of a bigger looming problem Editor’s Note: The article below was published this past weekend in the Washington Post. By Evan McKenzie Evan McKenzie teaches in…
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