Month: October 2024

Milton is expected to be a powerful hurricane when it approaches Florida’s Gulf Coast. Depending on the exact landfall location, communities near the hurricane’s core and southward have the potential to see the largest storm surge in their modern history.

Direct Relief reports sending more than 2,000 EpiPen shots to the Tar Heel State to help cope with the potential for bee stings. Beekeepers warn that bees usually become more defensive during the fall as they protect their hives. During the winter, bee activity is usually minimal before foraging and reproduction start up again in the spring.

An alarming change in the forecast now shows the potential for a dangerous hurricane to strike the west coast of Florida later this week with damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge and torrential rain.

The Florida Peninsula is on alert for a high impact cyclone that is expected to carry the name of Milton. Computer forecast models are in increasing agreement that the system is going to strengthen in the Gulf of Mexico.

The broad tropical disturbance we have been discussing for days is consolidating quickly in the western Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center has designated it Tropical Depression Fourteen.

Tropical Depression Fourteen formed in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, eventually eyeing Florida next week as a tropical storm or even possibly as a hurricane, with days of torrential rains and triggering a risk of flooding and gusty winds.

It’s now the second weekend of recovery and resilience since Hurricane Helene tore through Florida and the Southeast, killing at least 232 people with hundreds more still unaccounted for from the deadliest mainland US hurricane since Katrina.