Recent rains lead to significant drought improvement

Summer officially starts on June 20 at 10:42 p.m.

Heat deaths continue to rise. Heat-related deaths doubled from 1999 to 2023, with 21,518 deaths recorded during that period. There is a difference between stroke and exhaustion; learn the signs.

As we wait for the tax-free week for hurricane supplies to be determined, there are some things you can review and do now to be prepared, and still save some money.

Eastern Pacific basin heating up, quiet in Atlantic

Hottest May in decades for Jacksonville and N. FL with increases in rain

The stretch of coastline between Apalachicola and Cedar Key flares neon red on flood risk maps but goes dark on NOAA tide gauge maps. The 150-mile expanse between Apalachicola and Cedar Key has no instruments. Tampa Bay, for comparison, has four.

A series of fronts just north of the area and plenty of Gulf moisture will keep the chance for numerous showers and storms for days.

It's hurricane season, and tropical storms tend to form in June in the Gulf and the far western Atlantic, east of Florida. They are often big rainmakers.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts 13 to 19 named storms this season.