Hurricane

Hurricane season 2023

Hurricane season 2023

How to get through hurricanes and power outages

News Staff
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Metro Creative Hurricanes are powerful storms that can rip through areas and leave substantial damage and devastation in their wake. Hurricanes produce very strong winds that can cause power outages by knocking down electrical poles or even individual lines running to homes and businesses.
Hurricane season 2023

Hurricane season 2023

Understanding the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale

News Staff
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane’s sustained wind speed. This scale estimates potential property damage. Hurricanes reaching Category 3 and higher are considered major hurricanes because of their potential for significant loss of life and damage.
Ian re-classified a Category 5, among ’22 names retired By Brian McBride For the News-Gazette The winds, the fury, the flooding — there won’t be another storm like Hurricane Ian. Officially, there will never be another Hurricane Ian. Ian, blamed for killing two Central Florida men in 2022, including one in Kissimmee, has been retired. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee retired Ian and Fiona from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destr

Ian re-classified a Category 5, among ’22 names retired By Brian McBride For the News-Gazette The winds, the fury, the flooding — there won’t be another storm like Hurricane Ian. Officially, there will never be another Hurricane Ian. Ian, blamed for killing two Central Florida men in 2022, including one in Kissimmee, has been retired. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee retired Ian and Fiona from the rotating lists of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destr

Ian re-classified a Category 5, among ’22 names retired

Brian McBride
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The winds, the fury, the flooding — there won’t be another storm like Hurricane Ian. Officially, there will never be another Hurricane Ian. Ian, blamed for killing two Central Florida men in 2022, including one in Kissimmee, has been retired.
The time to plan for hurricane season is now.

The time to plan for hurricane season is now.

The time to plan for storm season is now

News Staff
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
With June 1 kicking off hurricane season, now is the time to put a plan in place — not when a named storm is bearing down on the Florida peninsula and Osceola County. Here are a handful of tips from organizations who make it their mission to plan for, and recover from, catastrophic storms.
FIle photo

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First of two storm prep sales tax holidays underway

Brian McBride
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Florida residents will get two disaster preparedness tax holidays with hurricane season swirling around the state. The Disaster Preparedness 2023 Sales Tax holiday covers more items than in past tax-free periods, such as reusable ice and non-electric food storage coolers.
The projected path of Subtropical Storm Nicole, as of 10 a.m., with landfall as a hurricane. GRAPHIC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER

The projected path of Subtropical Storm Nicole, as of 10 a.m., with landfall as a hurricane. GRAPHIC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER

NICOLE UPDATE: Hurricane watches for Florida east coast, Tropical Storm watch inland, including for Osceola

Staff Report
Monday, November 7, 2022
As if Mother Nature needed to remind us that the Atlantic hurricane season runs through the end of November, Subtropical Storm Nicole has formed, and is expected to bring rain to already flood-swollen and wet areas of Osceola County starting late Wednesday, and could last into Friday.
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