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Forecasters at the Colorado State University Tropical Weather and Climate Research Group say the 2023 season could feature below average storm activity. They also report that the forecast could change over the next few months.

The study by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found warming waters in the eastern Pacific that produce winds that steer hurricanes are likely to shift toward the southeast U.S. and Gulf coasts.

As Florida lawmakers try to stabilize the troubled property-insurance system next month, they could face worsening problems with reinsurance, a critical part of the system. Overall reinsurance prices are expected to increase by more than 10 percent in 2023, due to disasters such as Hurricane Ian and “increasing frequency and severity of natural catastrophe claims.”

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The causeway linking the island to the Florida mainland reopened with temporary repairs just three weeks after it was washed out by the hurricane. The reopening will help recovery work on the island.

Researchers have begun holding workshops after a statewide survey found widespread misunderstanding of the forecast cone that's been used for 20 years.

Florida lives in a constant cycle of adapting and developing ways to mitigate damage after devastating hurricanes. Is this pattern sustainable for the future — and is Hurricane Ian the beginning of a new start for Florida?

Fort Myers Beach officials have said allowing more people onto the island would hinder their efforts to search for those injured and killed in the storm. Florida has recorded 92 storm-related deaths so far. Five people were also killed in North Carolina, three in Cuba and one in Virginia.

Most researchers agree it’s not valid to point to a single storm and say it was 'caused' by the warming world — too many variables. But there’s a growing consensus that the sea level rise and higher temperatures in the last hundred years have already impacted storms like Ian and may continue to do so in the future.

In total, 67 infants had to be evacuated from Southwest Florida hospitals to regions throughout the state.

Images of the aftermath show a glimpse of the destruction caused by the powerful Category 4 hurricane: homes washed out, boats yanked from their moorings, and decimated neighborhoods.

Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified off Florida's southwest coast Wednesday, gaining top winds of 155 mph. Forecasters said the Fort Myers area could be inundated by a storm surge of up to 18 feet.