Hurricane Melissa, a late-season Category 5 hurricane, was the most impactful storm of 2025. It made its first landfall in ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Hurricane Ian swamped southwest Florida, leaving behind a damaged power infrastructure in two counties, turning streets into rivers, and damaging two bridges, including the Sanibel ...

TAMPA, Fla. - It's been 20 years since Hurricane Charley made landfall in the Sunshine State, wreaking havoc as it tore through Florida and jumpstarting a devastating hurricane season. On August 13, ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Hurricane Ian's track has shifted south of the Tampa Bay area Tuesday evening, but the storm continues to strengthen as it moves toward Florida's Gulf Coast. The storm could make ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. - With Hurricane Ian making landfall south of Tampa Bay, the eerie imagery – reminiscent of those from Hurricane Irma in 2017 – of an empty Hillsborough Bay and other local waterways ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Hurricane Helene, which became a Category 4 storm on Thursday afternoon, made landfall in the Big Bend area around 11:15 p.m. just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River, which is about ...

TAMPA, Fla. - The main way people die when a hurricane hits Florida is storm surge, according to the state's Know Your Zone website. Storm surge is a dome of water pushed onto land by powerful ...

TAMPA, Fla. - A century ago, the 1921 hurricane made landfall in Tarpon Springs, packing 120-mile-per-hour winds, a storm surge of 11 feet, and claiming the lives of eight – including children. That ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Being a coastal region in Florida, it’s no surprise that Tampa Bay has been dealt some blows by the tropics during its storied history, but direct hits from hurricanes are rare.

TAMPA, Fla. - As the Tampa Bay area works to recover from Hurricane Helene, a tropical disturbance is pulling moisture into the Gulf of Mexico, and that's expected to lead to heavy rain – but how soon ...

Every year, they make their journey, traveling thousands of miles from their cold, wintry homeland to a warm, summer-like paradise. In North America, many of these "snowbirds" come from Canada, and ...