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Update as of 5:30 AM Tuesday: A Hurricane Watch has been issued from Egmont Key northward to the Steinhatchee River.
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The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Elsa to a tropical storm. Heavy rains and gusty winds continue to spread inland across southwest and west-central Florida.
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Elsa is expected to drench Cuba and Jamaica before tracking towards Florida. The storm has battered the Caribbean and could bring dangerous conditions to other islands before hitting the mainland.
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Forecasters say it's still too early to know with certainty where Hurricane Elsa will land in Florida — but it's never too late to assemble your hurricane emergency kit.
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Elsa quickly intensified Thursday night, and by 7:45 am EDT Friday morning became the first hurricane of the 2021 season.
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Disaster officials racing to excavate rubble near the collapsed Champlain Tower South were preparing evacuation plans in case storm winds threaten the site.
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Tropical Storm Elsa is located well east of the Windward Islands, but is forecast to move quickly into the Caribbean this weekend.
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There is an increasing chance of a tropical storm in the Caribbean this upcoming holiday weekend — sooner than what is average in early July.
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Local nonprofits provided meal kits to seniors in the city of Miami Gardens.
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Hundreds of thousands of residents in Palm Beach County are facing a water advisory. Plus, a look at the 2021 hurricane season and former Miami Heat star Chris Bosh is out with a new book.
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Meteorologists predict another above-average hurricane season. As in the previous seven years, this season got an early start when Tropical Storm Ana formed in the Atlantic on May 22.
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Last year left little doubt climate change is spawning more and stronger hurricanes – and left aid agencies feeling more challenged as a new season starts.