Sarasota County is allocating nearly $14.5 million for the initial phase of dredging Phillippi Creek to address flooding. The ...

Weeks before the typical peak of Atlantic hurricane season, abnormally hot oceans spawned a record-shattering storm. And the trouble is just getting started. “The ocean heat content is beating last ...

Don’t be fooled – there’s still time for major activity this season. Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, the strongest-ever storm ...

The movie "Twister" was an iconic and incredibly influential movie for me when I was a kid. Because of it, I grew up with the dream to become a storm chaser. Though life has taken me in a different ...

As Newswatch 16's Mackenzie Aucker shows us, there is still more work to be done at the Trout Run Volunteer Fire Company.

In 1947, Project Cirrus attempted to weaken a hurricane with dry ice. Project STORMFURY later used silver iodide to try to disrupt hurricane eyewalls. Modification failed, but the research advanced ...

Will the 13th storm of the hurricane season be lucky and pass right over, or will it be the first to make landfall, ...

Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 5 hurricane as it approaches Jamaica, leaving Debbie and David Flagg, two ...