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Following the devastating landfalls of two major hurricanes that spread catastrophic flooding across Florida, WLRN sat down with the head of the National Hurricane Center's storm surge unit.
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Hurricane Helene and Milton delivered very different storm surges when they struck the Gulf Coast just two weeks apart.
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NOAA's new national climate service could be embedded in existing weather offices or become an independent division. The hope is that will allow local officials to prepare so that risks like the devastating flooding that followed Hurricane Helene can be avoided or at least lessened.
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The architectural designs and building materials typically used in Florida are not appropriate for the amount of moisture we get here, a researcher says.
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Several organizations are available to assist residents who have been impacted by Hurricane Helene. You can also offer your help in various ways.
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Unsettled weather conditions for parts of Florida will make recovery and cleanup efforts harder for some.
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The clips are from previous storms in different states and different years, contained artificial intelligence-altered clips and were shared online before Hurricane Helene.
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After three years of hurricanes barreling up the Gulf of Mexico, battered North Florida residents may feel they are living in a new Florida Hurricane Alley. But experts say there have not been any real changes in hurricane geographic patterns.
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Dan Brown, a specialist at the National Hurricane Center near Miami, said Helene had all the attributes that make a storm widely destructive. “Systems that get very powerful, large and fast moving unfortunately do bring the potential for impact and damage well inland.”
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And while the South Florida area was spared from such destruction, many residents in parts of the Tampa Bay area were surprised by the water whipping over seawalls and flooding coastal areas. The surge began when the center of Helene was still hundreds of miles away.
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UPDATED: Hurricane Helene has weakened into a tropical storm over Georgia after making landfall overnight in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm. Authorities rescued people trapped by floodwaters and more than 3 million customers were in the dark across much of the southeastern U.S. early Friday.
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The latest list of Helene-related announcements throughout South Florida.