ATLANTIC

Another fall like morning across the region with temperatures in the upper 50s inland and mid 60s near the coast. Temperatures will quickly warm up into the upper 80s to 90s so a HOT afternoon in store.Monday: Spotty showers possible across our southern locations Monday morning. Most of us stay dry with wake-up temperatures in the upper 60s to 70s.In the afternoon, scattered rain showers become widespread into Monday evening across our coastal locations.TROPICS: Philippe become the 17 named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, but it is no threat to land as it goes out into the open waters of the Atlantic. Ophelia continues to bring gusty winds and rainfall to the northeast, but it is on its way out!

More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more.

If you missed the first hurricane supply sales tax holiday in May at the beginning of hurricane season, your second chance to receive a few savings is Saturday, which comes just as a developing system is brewing in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

Florida’s second Disaster Preparedness sales tax holiday starts Saturday and runs through Sept. 8. It allows families to save on important items necessary for hurricane season.

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From the Pacific to the Atlantic, we are dealing with activity in the Tropics

After a big lull for much of late July and August, it appears the tropics will likely become more active.

Federal forecasters are doubling chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall.

Forecasters at Colorado State University continue to call for an above-average hurricane season in the Atlantic.

Welcome to August, a month that traditionally features heat, storms and a big uptick in Atlantic tropical activity.

JSO said it responded to the Woodhollow apartments around 5 a.m. following reports of an altercation between several people.

Tuesday evening showers, storms, Warmer Wednesday...

It is currently moving north at 6 mph and will likely turn and stay out to sea by the middle of next week.

Something to watch in the Atlantic

The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies.

The seasonal forecast, which was updated on July 6, has been raised from a slightly above-average season earlier this year.

Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret.

So what do two systems so early mean for the rest of hurricane season? It’s actually unprecedented.

Tropical Depression Four formed Thursday morning in the open waters of the Atlantic.

The tropics in the Atlantic have become very active. Tropical Storm Bret formed Monday evening and a second system is becoming likely to develop by midweek. But it’s not just active. It’s historically active in a region where June systems are extremely rare.

Tropical Storm Bret continued to strengthen Wednesday morning as it moved westward toward the Lesser Antilles.

Tropical Development: One with a Number and One Taking Shape

Tropical Depression 3 formed Monday morning in the open waters of the Atlantic.

A Tropical Wave will Exit the Coast of Africa with Room to Grow

Dust from the Saharan desert is impacting portions of the tropical Atlantic.This dust is transported thousands of miles and has a key purpose in the early stages of hurricane season.

Chris Licht is out after a year as chief executive at CNN, following a series of missteps and plunging ratings.

Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed in the Gulf of Mexico.

The depression formed Thursday evening.

The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is underway, which means a new list for named storms will be active.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting an average 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be.

A man was fatally stabbed Friday morning during what Jacksonville Sheriff's Office investigators described as a domestic dispute

In one week, two motorcyclists have died after being involved in two separate crashes.

A group of fish farmers wants to be the first to bring offshore aquaculture to the waters off New England by growing salmon and trout miles from land.

Weather officials say they’re retiring the names Fiona and Ian from the rotating list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destruction caused by the most recent storms with those names.

Sunny skies and open windows today!  A steady Atlantic breeze will keep the beaches a little cooler while inland areas warm to near seasonal afternoon highs.  Cloudy skies tonight with increasing rain chances through Friday.

Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk was right at home at the NHL All-Star Game.

Hurricane season may have come to a close, but there could be another tropical system in December.

From the National Hurricane Center: Special Tropical Weather Outlook issued to discuss the potential for subtropical development this week over the central Atlantic.

An Atlantic hurricane season with 14 named storms has ended, leaving residents in the Florida Keys to celebrate even as others around Florida and Puerto Rico continue to deal with the damage caused by Hurricanes Ian, Nicole and Fiona.

Today is the last day of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season and what a year it’s been.

Areas of light rain continue across southeast Georgia while most of northeast Florida dries under cloudy skies.  Our main hazard today and through the weekend will be flooding at times of high tide along our area rivers, the intercoastal and the Atlantic.

It’s been a breezy start to the week and a few showers streaming in from the Atlantic. A few showers will remain possible tonight, with the highest chance south of Jacksonville. Morning lows will be in the upper 60s.

From the National Hurricane Center:

Though there is a chance for rain on Monday, it is isolated.

It’s a cloudy start to the weekend and the clouds will remain in place throughout the day. Scattered showers will also stream in from the Atlantic, and the showers will likely impact the Georgia-Florida game. Highs for gameday will be in the low 70s with windy conditions.

Tropical Depression Twelve formed Tuesday evening in the open Atlantic, and is expected to be a short-lived storm.

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Wednesday night moved to close all three beaches in Duval — Atlantic, Jacksonville and Neptune — until further notice due to Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day.

Tropical Storm Fiona strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Sunday morning as it continued to pour heavy rains over portions of the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Rail advocates are dusting off a proposal for passenger train service between Montreal and Boston, riding on a renewed interest in train travel.

A lucky few will see showers and thunderstorms today. The rest of us feel summer’s heat. Limited rain chances today with isolated activity expected inland, mainly after 3 p.m., near and along Highway 301. As the Atlantic sea breeze weakens, these will drift toward I-95 late tonight.

Do you have a plan in the event of an emergency? Would you be ready to pack up and leave home at the drop of a hat if an incoming storm triggered an evacuation order?

Hot conditions this afternoon without much rain to cool us down. A few spotty storms will move from Clay and Baker counties westward to I-75 and fade out quickly this evening. Dry conditions are expected for the rest of us under mostly clear skies.

Hot and humid with an active Atlantic sea breeze.  The sea breeze will get a rolling head start this morning bringing better chances of showers and storms to our inland counties.  Where the Atlantic sea breeze meets the Gulf wind, scattered to numerous showers, storms expected.  Near seasonal afternoon highs continue across NE FL, hotter and drier for SE GA.

A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.

Forecasters are watching one tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

The sea breeze has fired up and the coast is getting gusts over 20 mph helping to hold down any heat advisories today except for Alachua and Columbia counties through 7 pm.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida.

This system is an early season storm and will only slowly increase in strength as it nears, crosses South Florida.

City leaders held a news conference Wednesday -- the first day of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season -- to remind Jacksonville residents to make sure they know their evacuation zone and prepare hurricane kits.

Two men believed to have been involved in a bank robbery on Gate Parkway were stopped about 4 miles away at a CVS parking lot at the corner of Atlantic and Southside boulevards, police said Wednesday.

Hurricane season starts Wednesday and it's looking busy: Every factor out there is pointing to another nasty year in the Atlantic.

On the eve of the Atlantic hurricane season, a new survey shows a growing number of Floridians are choosing not to leave their homes if there’s a hurricane.

La Nina, the flip side of the better known El Nino weather condition, keeps popping up.

The recreational harvest of snook in Atlantic state and federal waters has a regular-season closure that starts June 1.

A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring is back in Greece after a string of adventures.

The National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center on Sunday began issuing its Atlantic basin Tropical Weather Outlook in 2022.

News4JAX viewer Eric Thorn shared video Wednesday of a group of manatees — eight he counted — that greeted him near the dock of his apartment complex.

A new study links how many hurricanes form worldwide to air pollution levels.

Clay County Emergency Management has released an updated map with the county’s hurricane evacuation zones.

Having a written plan will take out the guesswork

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has approved regulation changes for cobia and redfish in state waters and a temporary modification to the 2022 recreational blueline tilefish season in Atlantic state waters.

Step one to being prepared is to determine your risk.

Monday officially marks 100 days until the start of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1, 2022.

World leaders are trying to save the planet’s oceans in talks on France’s Atlantic coast aimed at fighting overfishing and plastic pollution, and finding fairer ways to manage the seas.

Happy Monday! After a cold weekend we are finally warming up today - yay!

Snook reopens for recreational harvest on Feb. 1 in Florida’s Atlantic coastal and inland waters (from the Miami-Dade/Monroe county line north), including Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River.

Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship on the Alabama coast have made a surprising discovery.

As a nor’easter arrives with high astronomical tides, the main hazard will be moderate to major coastal flooding along the Atlantic coast, St. Johns River and inland tributaries, according to Nassau County officials.

Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business.

Hundreds of people were evacuated during the night on the Spanish island of La Palma as a river of molten rock creeps deeper into a coastal town during a protracted volcanic eruption.

The recreational harvest of flounder in all state and federal waters will close Oct. 15 and remain closed through Nov. 30, reopening Dec. 1.

It's going to be a rough weekend in the water for beachgoers along the U.S. east coast.

The International Organization for Migration says migrant deaths along the Atlantic route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high last month with 379 lives lost at sea.

The Hurricane Committee of the World Meteorological Organization met virtually back in March to discuss the record-breaking 2020 hurricane season and what changes needed to be made.

The National Hurricane Center has named Tropical Storm Peter in the Atlantic 60 miles east of the Leeward Islands.

Hurricane Larry continues to strengthen over the open Atlantic. As of 11 a.m. the storm has max winds of 120 mph and moving northwest at 10 mph.

The first of three tropical systems currently being monitoring in the Atlantic basin came ashore in the Florida Panhandle about 3:15 p.m. Monday.

The National Hurricane Center is also monitoring another area of low pressure. Designated 95L, this is located around 14°N 47°W or about 1000 miles east of the Leeward Islands (pretty far out in the Atlantic). It is also racing westward at nearly 20 mph. This fast motion is most likely keeping the National Hurricane Center on “pause” mode from classifying this as the next potential tropical cyclone.

Patchy fog possible this morning.  Becoming partly cloudy as high pressure to our north continues the onshore flow from the Atlantic with the sea breeze moving well inland through the day.

Heavy rains are pelting the northern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Fred has formed just south of Puerto Rico following a quiet month of no named storms in the region.

The summer pattern returns with onshore wind and afternoon showers, storms hitching a ride on the Atlantic sea breeze.  The onshore flow will add to the storm instability this afternoon.  The east coast and gulf coast sea breezes will converge near highway 301 to I-75 mainly after 2pm.  Activity will begin near I95, between noon and 2pm, then move inland through the remainder of the afternoon.  This activity will diminish this evening with loss of heating.

U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

We’re two months into the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season and atmospheric and oceanic conditions remain conducive for an above-average hurricane season, according to the annual mid-season update issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service.

August is known as a favorable environment for tropical development as ocean water temperatures tend to be the warmest.

A new push to protect the final remaining wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. is unlikely to land the fish on a key state endangered list.

Friday morning two aquatic autonomous Saildrone Explorers launched from Fort George Island that will storm chase in the Atlantic in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A later start to our isolated storms with widely scattered showers developing across the area as the Gulf coast sea breeze progresses eastward.  The Atlantic sea breeze will be delayed until mid-day, remaining pinned near and along I-95 and the beaches through the late afternoon.  Locally heavy rainfall will be possible.  Heat index values of 100-105 degrees are expected this afternoon across much of our area.