Hurricane-resistant homes survived Category 4 or 5 winds and life-threatening storm surge amidst an expanse of destruction ...

Hurricane Erick is on a path to strike Mexico as a powerful and intensifying storm Thursday. It’s the fifth named storm of ...

Some partly sunny breaks are possible this afternoon amid otherwise mostly cloudy skies, with warmer highs in the upper 70s ...

Austin Schargorodski reports on how one Sanibel neighborhood is being elevated - literally - in hopes of staying dry in the ...

Inside the University of Miami's SUSTAIN Laboratory, scientists are creating Category 5 hurricanes on demand in the world's ...

The 2025 hurricane season likely will be active. Forecasting tropical storm intensity can be challenging for residents and ...

Last developed in the 1960s, the property, in Coquina Sands, overlooking Hurricane Harbor, sold for $17.5 million. The new ...

Buc-ee's wants to build one of the largest convenience stores in the world in Charlotte County near Peace River. What safety measures will it take?

With most hurricanes, storm surge is the storm’s deadliest and most significant part. Hurricane Ian was no exception. Ian’s surge of at least 13.8 feet along Fort Myers Beach is the highest ...

That’s valuable information for Fountain, a hydrographer with the U.S. Geological Survey tasked with figuring out where Hurricane Ian’s storm surge reached — and how high it rose.

When Hurricane Ian slammed into the southwest Florida coast last month, those who did not evacuate faced conditions so dangerous that rescues were sometimes impossible. Fearsome storm surge and ...

Early surveys of Hurricane Ian’s damage and data from flood sensors show that the massive cyclone’s storm surge — powerful floods of ocean water above normally dry land — rose one to two ...