Live camera: View from Southernmost Point buoy in Key West as Hurricane Milton makes landfall
Updated: 6:48 PM PDT Oct 9, 2024
Live cameras are showing heavy winds and rain hitting Key West, Florida, as Hurricane Milton makes landfall.The live camera above shows the Southernmost Point buoy in Key West, Florida, as the storm moves through. Hurricane Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key in Sarasota County Wednesday evening. Milton brought powerful winds, deadly storm surges, and flooding on Wednesday along much of Florida’s Gulf Coast.The National Hurricane Center says Milton was fueled by an extremely warm Gulf of Mexico. It was expected to remain a hurricane as it crosses the Florida peninsula Thursday before emerging in the Atlantic Ocean.
Live cameras are showing heavy winds and rain hitting Key West, Florida, as Hurricane Milton makes landfall.
The live camera above shows the Southernmost Point buoy in Key West, Florida, as the storm moves through.
Hurricane Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key in Sarasota County Wednesday evening. Milton brought powerful winds, deadly storm surges, and flooding on Wednesday along much of Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The National Hurricane Center says Milton was fueled by an extremely warm Gulf of Mexico. It was expected to remain a hurricane as it crosses the Florida peninsula Thursday before emerging in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricane Milton made landfall just after 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday near Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 storm. Jonathan Vigliotti, Vladimir Duthiers and Nicole Valdes report from the impact zone.
Be the first to know
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities on Florida’s Gulf Coast — still reeling from Hurricane Helene — are now revving up for Hurricane Milton.
The system, which is shaping up to be one of the most powerful to hit the region in years, is projected to make landfall a bit south of the Tampa area late Wednesday. Long-term care facilities in counties where mandatory evacuations have been issued are taking their patients elsewhere, while hospitals are largely on guard, preparing to stay open through the storm.
According to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ website, 10 hospitals have reported evacuations as of Tuesday afternoon. Three hundred healthcare facilities have evacuated as of this morning, the most many of the staff working there could remember, said Florida Agency for Health Care Administration deputy secretary Kim Smoak. That count included 63 nursing homes and 169 assisted living facilities.
Steve McCoy, chief of the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Oversight, said it is the state’s “largest evacuation ever.”
Health officials are using almost 600 vehicles to take patients out of the storm’s path, tracking them with blue wristbands that show where they were evacuated from and where they are being sent. They plan to keep getting patients out through the night, until winds reach sustained speeds of 40 mph and driving conditions become unsafe.
“I’ve lived on the Gulf Coast my entire life and in Sarasota for 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said David Verinder, CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System. “Our anxieties are high, but we’re as prepared as we know how to be.”
Tampa General Hospital has stocked up on more than five days of supplies, including food, linens and 5,000 gallons of water, in addition to an on-site well. In the event of a power disruption, the hospital also has an energy plant with generators and boilers located 33 feet above sea level.
Tampa General deployed an “aquafence” to successfully prevent storm-surge flooding during Hurricane Helene two weeks ago. The barrier will be up again when Milton makes landfall and can withstand a storm surge of 15 feet. The U.S. National Hurricane Center estimates Milton’s surges will be 10 to 15 feet high at their peak.
No one will be working on the first floor of Tampa General Hospital for the foreseeable future — just in case.
“While AquaFence has proven effective in the past, it is just the first line of defense and one of many mitigation efforts we’ve implemented this week to safely continue care for our patients,” said Jennifer Crabtree, chief of staff at Tampa General.
The Tampa health system has shuttered many urgent care and imaging locations, but its four hospital campuses are prepared to remain open through the storm.
HCA Florida Healthcare, one of the state’s largest healthcare networks, has evacuated patients from five hospitals to sister facilities. The closed HCA Florida hospitals are Pasadena Hospital in St. Petersburg, Largo West Hospital in Largo, Florida Englewood Hospital in Englewood, West Tampa Hospital in Tampa and Fawcett Hospital in Port Charlotte, where strong winds and flooding caused major damage in 2022 during Hurricane Ian.
AdventHealth North Pinellas evacuated its 40 patients Tuesday afternoon, transferring them to nearby hospitals in their health system. The hospital’s emergency department remains open. Randy Haffner, CEO and president of AdventHealth Florida, said in an emailed statement that the system is “as prepared as we can be with water, generators, sandbags, satellite phones and the best caregivers there are.”
Hospitals are shuttering nearby, but Sarasota Memorial Health Care System also plans to stay open through the storm and shelter in place, Verinder said. Still, “we are concerned about the many unknowns,” he said.
Verinder estimates the system, stocked with enough food, water, linens and medications for at least seven days and 200,000 gallons of fuel, will be expected to shelter and support more than 4,000 people during the hurricane, though they are already close to capacity.
More than 2,500 staff members are gearing up for multiple nights in the hospital starting Tuesday, so Sarasota Memorial is providing childcare and pet shelters at both of its campuses.
“We are not a designated medical shelter, but we are working with the county to care for medically dependent persons assigned to the hospital because of the acuity of their needs … and patients evacuated from other hospitals in the region,” he said.
Dr. Matt Shannon, director of community emergency medicine at the University of Florida Health, said the state’s flagship is prepared to take patients.
“The emergency department… we never close,” he said. “We have five emergency departments, all of which are open and functioning. This is not our first rodeo — we’ve been through this many times before.”
Repeated rough hurricane seasons have hardened Florida facilities and prepared them for Milton, said Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association. Still, the sheer power of Hurricane Milton and the back-to-back nature of storms will affect “a wide swath of the state and the hospitals.”
“It’s increasing the vulnerabilities in the area, from flooding to clogged drains to debris that hasn’t been removed that may exacerbate the situation that is already forecasted to be catastrophic,” Mayhew said. “Area hospitals routinely prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”
In a briefing Tuesday, state officials and long-term care industry representatives urged nursing homes and assisted living facilities to prepare for long power outages, damage to sewer systems and being unable to access electronic health records.
“We want to remind you that all emergencies are local,” said Emmett Reed, CEO of the Florida Health Care Association, which represents nursing homes and assisted living providers in the state. “You need to start with your local emergency office to report any questions you might have.”
Florida’s west coast, which includes Pinellas, Manatee and Hillsborough counties, has the highest concentration of nursing centers in the state, Florida Health Care Association spokesperson Kristen Knapp said.
“Based on what has been reported, at a minimum, you’re talking about 5,000-6,000 nursing home residents that have evacuated,” Knapp said in an email.
In counties under state of emergency orders, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are required to have enough emergency generator fuel to power life-saving equipment and keep indoor temperatures at a safe level for 96 hours.
Deborah Franklin, a member of the Florida Health Care Association’s emergency response team, said centers should be printing resident documents, including medications, dietary restrictions and more, even if they are not in the worst of the hurricane’s path. She also urged staff to consider the mental health of their residents, some of whom are moving for the second time in just a few weeks.
“You must address — after the storm or even during the storm — trauma-informed care for these residents,” Franklin said. “They could be worried about their families. They could be worried about if they’re going to have a home to go back to.”
Sixty-seven-year-old Lillie Whiting said she doesn’t plan on evacuating the assisted living facility where she lives a few blocks from the bay in Clearwater. But she may have to pack up anyway if staff at Magnolia Manor determine that residents need to be relocated to another facility across town.
“We might have to evacuate, but they doubt it, saying we’ll see what goes on,” Whiting said. “If we do, they got another place we can go.”
The retired housekeeper took advantage of the clear weather Tuesday afternoon to get some fresh air, supported by the walker she uses to get around. She is getting more nervous as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the Gulf Coast, but she said she feels confident the facility will take care of her and the other residents.
“Kinda scared,” she said. “But I be praying all the time.”
Shannon from UF Health said most people with lung issues who rely on oxygen at home have backup oxygen bottles prepared, and some new devices even have backup batteries.
But he is concerned about elderly people and those who live in rural areas.
“We see them in the emergency room when backups fail or they don’t have access to a generator,” Shannon said.
Dialysis facilities across the state are trying to provide even shortened treatments to as many patients as possible before closing for the storm.
“Helene, they were able to get back up and running pretty quickly. But with the wind, this could be a different kind of event,” said Helen Rose of Health Services Advisory Group, which is helping coordinate disaster response for kidney patients. The network has established a phone helpline and will keep an updated list of open facilities during and after the storm.
PEABODY — Two lineworkers from the Peabody Municipal Light Plant went down to Georgia to help fix in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Kevin MacGregor, a supervisor and lineworker, and Ed Melo, a lead lineworker and troubleworker, left for Cordele, Georgia, on Sept. 27 in PMLP’s Truck 58, PMLP said in a statement.
PMLP was called upon by the Northeast Public Power Association’s mutual aid network to assist the South following the storm. Once in Georgia, MacGregor and Melo helped the Crisp County Power Commission work to restore power to thousands of people.
“Mutual aid is an important investment in public power and other municipalities around the country. We are all partners,” PMLP General Manager Joe Anastasi said in the statement. “When natural disaster or other catastrophic events happen, utilities in cities and towns do what we do best: help get power restored to customers.”
Mutual aid is fully paid for by the requesting utility company, PMLP said.
“Although PMLP has not requested mutual aid, being a part of this network assures that Peabody and South Lynnfield will have support should it ever face such a disaster,” according to the statement.
Other local public power utilities who have sent aid to areas affected by Hurricane Helene include Danvers, Wakefield, Rowley, Middleton and Reading.
Less than 10 days after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, the state is bracing for another potentially devastating blow from a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Milton formed in the western Gulf on Saturday morning just hours after it became a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said in a special alert. The 13th named storm, which uses the letter M, is running ahead of pace – it doesn’t usually occur until October 25.
Milton is forecast to strengthen and bring life-threatening impacts to portions of the west coast of Florida next week.
The storm is expected to “quickly intensify while it moves eastward to northeastward across the Gulf of Mexico and be at or near major hurricane strength when it reaches the west coast of the Florida Peninsula mid week,” the hurricane center said. As of Saturday afternoon, it is expected to make landfall in Florida as at least a Category 2 hurricane.
Hurricane watches, as well as storm surge watches, will likely be issued for portions of the Florida coast on Sunday – a dangerous storm surge is expected for some areas that were just affected by Helene.
“Regardless of development, locally heavy rains could occur over portions of Mexico during the next day or two, and over much of Florida late this weekend through the middle of next week,” the NHC said.
The storm threat comes after Helene made landfall September 26 on Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 4 and created a 500-mile path of destruction with catastrophic flooding, damaging winds and power outages. Local authorities have reported more than 200 deaths across six states and fear that number could rise.
Helene was one of the largest storms the Gulf of Mexico has seen in the last century.
The latest storm forecast at this point calls for widespread totals of 4 to 6 inches of rain across almost the full length of the state, from Gainesville down through Key West, with isolated higher amounts up to 10 inches possible through Thursday. Tampa has already already seen more than 20 inches of rainfall above normal for the year. Cities like Melbourne, Jacksonville, Naples and Fort Myers all have more than a foot of surplus rainfall so far this year as well.
There is also an increasing risk of storm surge for the western Florida Peninsula as early as late Tuesday or Wednesday. Damaging winds, tornadoes and waterspouts will also be possible next week.
The hurricane center is warning people in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the Florida Peninsula, the Florida Keys, as well as the Bahamas to closely monitor this system this weekend and early next week for any impacts.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Kirk remained a Category 4 major hurricane, and waves from the system were affecting the the Leeward Islands, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles, forecasters said. The storm’s swells were expected to spread to the East Coast of the United States, the Atlantic Coast of Canada and the Bahamas on Saturday night and Sunday.
Forecasters warned the waves could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
Kirk was expected to weaken starting Saturday, the center said.
Though there were no coastal warnings or watches in effect for Kirk, the center said those in the Azores, where swells could hit Monday, should monitor the storm’s progress.
Kirk was about 975 miles (1,570 kilometers) east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (209 kph).
(The-CNN-Wire & 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
Less than 10 days after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, the state is bracing for another potentially devastating blow from a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Milton formed in the western Gulf on Saturday morning just hours after it became a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said in a special alert. The 13th named storm, which uses the letter M, is running ahead of pace – it doesn’t usually occur until October 25.
Milton is forecast to strengthen and bring life-threatening impacts to portions of the west coast of Florida next week.
The storm is expected to “quickly intensify while it moves eastward to northeastward across the Gulf of Mexico and be at or near major hurricane strength when it reaches the west coast of the Florida Peninsula mid week,” the hurricane center said. As of Saturday afternoon, it is expected to make landfall in Florida as at least a Category 2 hurricane.
Hurricane watches, as well as storm surge watches, will likely be issued for portions of the Florida coast on Sunday – a dangerous storm surge is expected for some areas that were just affected by Helene.
“Regardless of development, locally heavy rains could occur over portions of Mexico during the next day or two, and over much of Florida late this weekend through the middle of next week,” the NHC said.
The storm threat comes after Helene made landfall September 26 on Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 4 and created a 500-mile path of destruction with catastrophic flooding, damaging winds and power outages. Local authorities have reported more than 200 deaths across six states and fear that number could rise.
Helene was one of the largest storms the Gulf of Mexico has seen in the last century.
The latest storm forecast at this point calls for widespread totals of 4 to 6 inches of rain across almost the full length of the state, from Gainesville down through Key West, with isolated higher amounts up to 10 inches possible through Thursday. Tampa has already already seen more than 20 inches of rainfall above normal for the year. Cities like Melbourne, Jacksonville, Naples and Fort Myers all have more than a foot of surplus rainfall so far this year as well.
There is also an increasing risk of storm surge for the western Florida Peninsula as early as late Tuesday or Wednesday. Damaging winds, tornadoes and waterspouts will also be possible next week.
The hurricane center is warning people in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the Florida Peninsula, the Florida Keys, as well as the Bahamas to closely monitor this system this weekend and early next week for any impacts.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Kirk remained a Category 4 major hurricane, and waves from the system were affecting the the Leeward Islands, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles, forecasters said. The storm’s swells were expected to spread to the East Coast of the United States, the Atlantic Coast of Canada and the Bahamas on Saturday night and Sunday.
Forecasters warned the waves could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
Kirk was expected to weaken starting Saturday, the center said.
Though there were no coastal warnings or watches in effect for Kirk, the center said those in the Azores, where swells could hit Monday, should monitor the storm’s progress.
Kirk was about 975 miles (1,570 kilometers) east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (209 kph).
(The-CNN-Wire & 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
Members of a Beverly-based search-and-rescue team are continuing to search for victims and help with recovery efforts in North Carolina and Florida in the wake of Hurricane Helene. A total of 61 members of Massachusetts Task Force 1 have responded to the area, including 56 in North Carolina and five in Florida, according to Thomas Gatzunis, a planning team manager, public information officer and structures specialist for the team. Hurricane Helene was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history and is estimated to have killed more than 150 people in six states. Massachusetts Task Force 1 is one of 28 Federal Emergency Management Agency search-and-rescue teams in the nation. It is based at a compound next to Beverly Airport and is comprised of about 250 volunteers from all six New England states, including firefighters, police officers, doctors, paramedics, canine handlers and engineers. Here are photos provided by the team of their ongoing efforts in North Carolina.
Members of a Beverly-based search-and-rescue team are continuing to search for victims and help with recovery efforts in North Carolina and Florida in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
A total of 61 members of Massachusetts Task Force 1 have responded to the area, including 56 in North Carolina and five in Florida, according to Thomas Gatzunis, a planning team manager, public information officer and structures specialist for the team.
Hurricane Helene was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history and is estimated to have killed more than 150 people in six states.
Massachusetts Task Force 1 is one of 28 Federal Emergency Management Agency search-and-rescue teams in the nation. It is based at a compound next to Beverly Airport and is comprised of about 250 volunteers from all six New England states, including firefighters, police officers, doctors, paramedics, canine handlers and engineers.
Here are photos provided by the team of their ongoing efforts in North Carolina.
In 2015, Sharyn Alfonsi investigated allegations that thousands of homeowners were underpaid for their flood insurance claims after Hurricane Sandy because engineering reports on damaged houses were altered.
Be the first to know
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
The National Weather Serive has issued coastal flood and high tide advisories through this evening for the North Shore, from Salem to Newburyport.
Second and third coastal flood advisories were issued for Friday at 11 p.m. to Saturday at 5 a.m., and for Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For the high surf advisory, large breaking waves can be expected in the surf zone Friday through 7 p.m., the weather service said.
For the Friday afternoon coastal flood advisory, through 6 p.m. Friday, 1 to 2 feet of inundation above ground level may expected in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways (4.2 to 13.9 feet Mean Lower Low Water).
Flooding up to 1 foot deep may affect coastal roads on the North Shore from Salem to Gloucester and Newburyport, the weather service said. Rough surf will cause flooding on some coastal roads around the time of high tide due to splashover.
Mariners should be aware the National Weather Service has issued a gale warning through Saturday morning for coastal waters east of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and for Massachusetts and Ipswich Bays.
Northeast winds at 20 to 25 knots with gusts up to 40 knots and 6- to 11-foot seas may be expected.
The strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility, according to the weather service.
Francine slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of customers and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along the Gulf Coast. Despite quickly weakening to a tropical storm, it was packing a strong punch.
Francine crashed ashore in Terrebonne Parish, about 30 miles southwest of Morgan City, the National Hurricane Center announced at 4 p.m. CDT. Packing maximum sustained winds near 100 mph, the storm then battered a fragile coastal region that hasn’t fully recovered from a series of devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021.
Morgan City Fire Chief Alvin Cockerham said Francine quickly flooded streets, snapped power lines and sent tree limbs crashing down.
The entrance to Lake Ponchartrain Causeway is closed due to Hurricane Francine in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. The causeway is the longest continuous bridge over water in the world.
Matthew Hinton / AP
“It’s a little bit worse than what I expected to be honest with you,” Cockerham said of the onslaught. “I pulled all my trucks back to the station; it’s too dangerous to be out there in this.”
There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries.
More than 330,000 customers were without power across Louisiana Wednesday night, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.
TV news broadcasts from Louisiana’s coastal communities showed waves from nearby lakes, rivers and Gulf waters thrashing sea walls. Water poured into city streets and neighborhoods amid blinding downpours. Oak and cypress trees leaned in the high winds, and some utility poles swayed back and forth.
Hardest hit by the blackouts was Terrebonne Parish near where the storm’s center hit land, as well as neighboring St. Mary Parish that includes Morgan City.
Det. Lt. David Spencer, a spokesperson for the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office, told CBS News in an email that the parish was “seeing more flooding than originally predicted.”
Spencer said the area was experiencing downed trees and power lines and damage to homes.
“We have had some roofs severely damaged and even gone,” Spencer wrote, adding that there were no reports of injuries.
Francine was centered about 35 miles northwest of New Orleans and had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph as of late Wednesday night, according to the hurricane center. It was moving northeast at 16 mph.
Sheltering at her mother’s home just outside Morgan City, Laura Leftwich said blasts of wind had swept away two large birdhouses outside. She had a generator powering an internet connection so she could video chat with friends, holding her computer to a window to show them water overflowing in the street.
If the storm had been any more intense, “I wouldn’t have the guts to look outside,” said Leftwich, 40. “It’s a little scary.”
Louisiana braces for the worst
Terrebonne Parish President Jason Bergeron told CBS News on Wednesday that the levies were holding, but the water is rising.
“The ground is saturated with water, and as the levy system is closed that water has a harder time getting out, except for some areas that have some pumps,” Bergeron said.
Sheltering at her mother’s home just outside Morgan City, Laura Leftwich said blasts of wind had swept away two large birdhouses outside. She had a generator powering an internet connection so she could video chat with friends, holding her computer to a window to show them water overflowing in the street.
If the storm had been any more intense, “I wouldn’t have the guts to look outside,” said Leftwich, 40. “It’s a little scary.”
The National Hurricane Center urged residents to stay sheltered overnight as Francine blows inland. The storm’s projected path included New Orleans, where forecasters said the storm’s eye could pass through.
Floodwater fills a neighborhood on September 11, 2024 in Houma, Louisiana. Hurricane Francine has been upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane and made landfall along the Louisiana coast.
Brandon Bell / Getty Images
“Conditions are going to go downhill really rapidly over the next couple of hours,” Jamie Rhome, the hurricane center’s deputy director, said in an online briefing prior to landfall. “It’s not going to be a good night to be driving on the roads, especially when the sun goes down.”
Bands of heavy rain began pelting New Orleans on Wednesday morning and were expected to intensify with the approach of Francine. New Orleans could see up to 10 inches of rain, putting the city’s water pump and drainage system to the test.
“Stay inside, hunker down,” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a news briefing Wednesday. “Now is the time, between now as well as moving into midnight.”
A flash flood emergency was declared for New Orleans, Metairie and Kenner until 11:45 p.m. local time, the National Weather Service said.
Francine expected to weaken rapidly
Francine drew fuel from exceedingly warm Gulf of Mexico waters, strengthening to a Category 2 storm hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said. Category 2 hurricanes are classified as having winds of between 96 to 110 mph that are capable of extensive damage.
Still dangerous, the hurricane began weakening as it rushed inland, dropping in less than two hours back to a Category 1 storm with top winds of 85 mph. Francine continued moving northeast at a fast clip of 17 mph on a path toward New Orleans, about 55 miles away.
A road is blocked off ahead of Hurricane Francine’s arrival on Sept. 11, 2024, in Dulac, Louisiana.
Brandon Bell / Getty Images
It was forecast to weaken further while pushing northward through Mississippi on Thursday, with widespread rains in the coming days bringing potential flash flooding to cities including Jackson, Mississippi; Birmingham, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; and Atlanta. It also raised the threat of spin-off tornadoes.
Much of Louisiana and Mississippi could get 4 to 8 inches of rain, with the possibility of 12 inches in some spots, said Brad Reinhart, a senior hurricane specialist at the hurricane center.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the National Guard would fan out to parishes impacted by Francine. They have food, water, nearly 400 high-water vehicles, about 100 boats and 50 helicopters to respond to the storm, including for possible search-and-rescue operations.
Louisianans have experience with hurricanes
Since the mid-19th century, some 57 hurricanes have tracked over or made landfall in Louisiana, according to The Weather Channel. Among them are some of the strongest, costliest and deadliest storms in U.S. history.
Morgan City, home to around 11,500 people, sits on the banks of the Atchafalaya River in south Louisiana and is surrounded by lakes and marsh. It’s described on the city’s website as “gateway to the Gulf of Mexico for the shrimping and oilfield industries.”
Luis Morfin, 26, left his RV camper outside Morgan City’s levee to hunker down at a friend’s home Wednesday night. Winds lashed the windows as they watching a TV powered by a generator. The power was out, but they were prepared to cook with steaks and potatoes on a propane stove.
“We knew what we were expecting,” Morfin said. “I don’t know how good my camper is, but we’ll figure that out tomorrow.”
President Biden granted an emergency declaration to help Louisiana secure expedited federal money and assistance. Landry and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves also declared states of emergency.
A hurricane warning was in effect along the Louisiana coast from Cameron east to Grand Isle, about 50 miles south of New Orleans, according to the Miami-based hurricane center. A storm surge warning stretched from the Mississippi-Alabama border to the Alabama-Florida border.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said it distributed more than 100,000 sandbags to the southern part of the state and the Department of Education reported a number of school district closures for Wednesday and Thursday.
The sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Francine had prompted storm surge warnings on the Louisiana coast of as much as 10 feet from Cameron to Port Fourchon and into Vermilion Bay, forecasters said.
Keep an umbrella handy as coastal rain rolls inland Wednesday afternoon
Our warm, humid and stormy conditions will continue as high temperatures reach the upper 80s.
Updated: 5:48 AM EDT Sep 11, 2024
SO THEN COMING BACK THIS MORNING, THINKING, OH, WOW. YEAH. IT’S HUMID. IT’S RAINING THIS MORNING. IT’S DEFINITELY A CHANGE. AND OF COURSE, OBVIOUSLY WE STILL NEED THE RAINFALL FOR SOME LOCATIONS BECAUSE WE’RE STILL UNDER A DEFICIT OR WE ARE IN A DEFICIT OF PRECIPITATION FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. BUT ALL AT ONCE IT’S A LOT AT ONE TIME. RIGHT NOW WE’RE SEEING A LOT OF HEAVY RAINFALL FOR PARTS OF THE CAPE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO PARTS OF MELBOURNE AND BREVARD COUNTY. AND WHEN WE LOOK AT FIRST WARNING RADAR, MUCH OF OUR INLAND SPOTS ARE DRY. WE’RE JUST GOING TO BE WATCHING THIS MORNING OR AS OUR COASTLINE FOR SOME OF THOSE SHOWERS AND SOME HEAVIER DOWNPOURS, EVEN AT TIMES. WE HAD A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF THE CAPE, SO FROM PORT SAINT JOHN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ROCKLEDGE, COCOA, COCOA BEACH, SATELLITE BEACH, MELBOURNE, WE HAVE PLENTY OF RAINFALL AND SOME OF THAT IS TRYING TO WORK INTO PARTS OF EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY AND A COUPLE OF LIGHT SHOWERS IN PARTS OF FLAGLER COUNTY RIGHT AROUND FLAGLER BEACH. SO THIS MORNING WE’RE WATCHING THE RADAR FOR OUR COASTLINE. SOME OF YOU, ESPECIALLY IN BREVARD COUNTY, WILL NEED THAT UMBRELLA AS YOU GET THE KIDS READY FOR SCHOOL. AND THEN WHEN YOU PICK THEM UP FROM SCHOOL, ONCE AGAIN, WE’LL HAVE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AND THESE ARE GOING TO DEVELOP PRETTY QUICKLY ALL MORNING LONG. THERE MAY BE A COASTAL SHOWER OR TWO. INLAND SPOTS SHOULD BE ON THE DRIER SIDE WITH A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS, BUT AT TIMES MORE CLOUD COVER INSTEAD OF SUNSHINE. 3:00 IN THE AFTERNOON. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THEN QUICKLY DEVELOPS AND THAT’S GOING TO LAST ALL THROUGHOUT THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AS WELL. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT 12 HOUR FORECAST QUICKLY INCREASING TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AROUND LUNCHTIME, AND THEN UP TO A 60% COVERAGE BETWEEN 3 AND 5:00 THIS EVENING. AND BECAUSE THOSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ON IN THE DAY, HIGH TEMPERATURES TOP OUT AROUND 83 TO 89 DEGREES. WE HAVE A LOT OF MOISTURE IN PLAY, AND IT’S ALL THANKS TO FRANCINE. NOW, FRANCINE IS NOT GOING TO DIRECTLY IMPACT US, BUT IT’S GOING TO PUSH A LOT OF THIS HUMID AIR INTO CENTRAL FLORIDA, WHICH IS WHY OUR RAIN CHANCES ARE GOING TO BE HIGH. STILL OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY THOUGH, WE’RE DOWN TO A 50% COVERAGE. THEN LOOKING AHEAD TO THE WEEKEND, ESPECIALLY ON SUNDAY, WE’LL START TO GET DRIER. A NEW LOW WILL TRY TO DEVELOP OUT IN THE ATLANTIC, WHICH WILL NOT IMPACT US, BUT MODELS SUGGESTING THIS WILL MOVE INTO THE CAROLINAS AS EARLY AS MONDAY, OR EVEN TUESDAY. BUT FOR NOW, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER HAS NOT TAGGED THIS AS AN AREA TO WATCH, BUT DEFINITELY GOING TO BE BIG IMPACTS FOR THE CAROLINAS IN TERMS OF RAIN AND SOME WIND WATCHING. INVEST WHAT WE CALL 93 L AND 80% CHANCE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. COULD GRADUALLY GET ITS ACT TOGETHER AND RIGHT NOW, NOT LOOKING LIKE A HUGE IMPACT FOR FLORIDA. STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO WATCH. MOST MODELS HAVE THIS EVENTUALLY STRENGTHENING LATER ON. NEXT WEEK AND INTO THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND, AND THIS WILL TRY TO AT LEAST SOME OF THE MODELS SHOWING THIS WILL TRY TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL ATLANTIC, SO WE’LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE TROPICS, BUT RIGHT NOW WE’RE JUST WATCHING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HERE LOCALLY. AND THEN LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK. MONDAY AND TUESDAY WE GET A BIT OF A DRI
Keep an umbrella handy as coastal rain rolls inland Wednesday afternoon
Our warm, humid and stormy conditions will continue as high temperatures reach the upper 80s.
Updated: 5:48 AM EDT Sep 11, 2024
Wednesday morning is off to a humid start with showers across parts of our coast. These coastal showers will linger throughout the morning. More showers and storms will develop Wednesday afternoon leading up to a 60% coverage. Much of the activity will fall off Wednesday night, however, a few showers overnight cannot be ruled out.Rain chances are slightly lower for the rest of the workweek and to start the weekend. Sunday’s rain chances will lower to 40% and continue to drop Monday and Tuesday around 30%.TROPICS:There are a few areas to watch in the tropics.Francine is a powerful Category 1 hurricane with winds of 90mph. The 11 p.m. track shows the storm making landfall in LA this PM as a strong Category 1 hurricane. From there it will work north into Mississippi as a tropical storm.Invest 92-L is producing disorganized showers and storms in the Central Atlantic. It is expected to encounter strong upper-level winds by Thursday which will limit this from developing further. There is a 30% chance of development in the next two and seven days.Invest 93-L is producing disorganized showers and storms, however, conditions look to be favorable for development. A tropical depression is likely to form later this week. Right now models are not making this a concern for the U.S.There is no area of interest yet, but models are hinting on a tropical disturbance developing off the GA/SC coast and moving into the Carolinas early next week.
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Wednesday morning is off to a humid start with showers across parts of our coast. These coastal showers will linger throughout the morning.
More showers and storms will develop Wednesday afternoon leading up to a 60% coverage.
Much of the activity will fall off Wednesday night, however, a few showers overnight cannot be ruled out.
Rain chances are slightly lower for the rest of the workweek and to start the weekend.
Sunday’s rain chances will lower to 40% and continue to drop Monday and Tuesday around 30%.
TROPICS:
There are a few areas to watch in the tropics.
Francine is a powerful Category 1 hurricane with winds of 90mph. The 11 p.m. track shows the storm making landfall in LA this PM as a strong Category 1 hurricane. From there it will work north into Mississippi as a tropical storm.
Invest 92-L is producing disorganized showers and storms in the Central Atlantic. It is expected to encounter strong upper-level winds by Thursday which will limit this from developing further. There is a 30% chance of development in the next two and seven days.
Invest 93-L is producing disorganized showers and storms, however, conditions look to be favorable for development. A tropical depression is likely to form later this week. Right now models are not making this a concern for the U.S.
There is no area of interest yet, but models are hinting on a tropical disturbance developing off the GA/SC coast and moving into the Carolinas early next week.
Editor’s note, September 5, 2024: This piece was originally published on July 30, 2019, when the fourth episode of Break Stuff: The Story of Woodstock ’99 first released. To mark the recent 25th anniversary of the festival, The Ringer is resurfacing Break Stuff on its own dedicated Spotify feed.
In 1999, a music festival in upstate New York became a social experiment. There were riots, looting, and numerous assaults, all set to a soundtrack of the era’s most aggressive rock bands. Incredibly, this was the third iteration of Woodstock, a festival originally known for peace, love, and hippie idealism. But Woodstock ’99 revealed some hard truths behind the myths of the 1960s and the danger that nostalgia can engender.
Break Stuff, an eight-part documentary podcast series now available on Spotify, investigates what went wrong at Woodstock ’99 and the legacy of the event as host Steven Hyden interviews promoters, attendees, journalists, and musicians. We’ve already explored whether Limp Bizkit were to blame for the chaos, how the story of the original Woodstock is mostly a myth, and how the host town prepared for the festival. In Episode 4, Hyden looks at how the first night of Woodstock ’99 set the stage for what was to come.
As attendees filed into Griffiss Air Force Base for the first day of the festival, large crowds swelled around the east and west stages. And when I say large, I mean humongous. It’s estimated that 220,000 people attended the festival, plus an additional 10,000 who worked there.
“It was kind of an out-of-body experience when you play a big festival like that, you know, where you can’t see the end of the crowd,” said Noodles, a guitarist for the Offspring.
In 1994, Noodles’s band released Smash,a blockbuster that sold 11 million copies, making it the best-selling record ever to be put out by an independent label. Five years later, the Offspring were still big MTV stars. But even a band as popular as the Offspring was humbled by the size of Woodstock ’99.
“We flew over it on our way in,” he says. “The area that this festival took over was really just a huge, huge area. We’ve been able to fly over other festivals since and it’s one of the biggest for sure. So it looked kind of cool, we were really excited.”
Once the band touched down and arrived backstage, however, the grandeur of Woodstock ‘99 also came crashing down.
“The venue really wasn’t great,” he says. “You know, it wasn’t a very hospitable. So it was kind of bleak in that regard.”
The Offspring were scheduled to play after the rapper DMX and before Korn. On stage, the members of the band stared into a vast sea of humanity that stretched as far as the eye could see. Playing Woodstock ’99 was a pretty heady experience for a band that came up in the underground punk scene.
“It is a little overwhelming,” Noodles says. “We’ve done it so much now that I guess I get more and more used to it, but still there’s an energy there that’s unlike anything else, and I guess that was kind of fun. It was, I think, a little too much, just a little bit too big.”
Most musicians will say the most disorienting aspect of performing at an event as massive as Woodstock ’99 is the disconnection from the audience. Even in an arena, an artist can still see the people in the first few rows. But at Woodstock ’99, the distance between performer and fan was nearly insurmountable.
“You know, the audience was super far away, there were big cameras on tracks that were in between us and the crowd as well,” Noodles says. “So just kind of connecting with the audience was a little bit more difficult.”
But the band didn’t miss everything. There was one moment when Offspring singer Dexter Holland was able to discern some bad behavior in the audience. It occurred near the end of the band’s set, when Holland decided to comment on it.
“But you know what, I was noticing something, I gotta call your attention to it for just a second,” Holland said on stage. “I’ve been noticing that there’s a lot of girls coming over the top here crowdsurfing. And they’re getting really groped, you know what I mean. Now I think, just because a girl wants to go crowdsurfing or whatever, that doesn’t give a guy the right to molest ’em, know what I’m sayin’?”
Then, Holland said that the audience members should take matters into their own hands.
“If you’re a guy and you see a girl go overhead, give her a break,” he said. “If you’re a girl and you see a guy go overhead, I want you to grab his fucking balls!”
But again, in the moment, the bands were in a totally different world from the audience. And that surely affects the perspective of artists like Jonathan Davis, the lead singer of Korn. When he talks about Woodstock ’99, he doesn’t think about sexual assaults.
It was the biggest fucking group of people I ever saw in a festival setting like that in America, and all I know is our show was amazing,” Davis says.
Woodstock ’99 was the first concert that Korn had played in months. The band had been holed up in Los Angeles working on a new album. After so much hard work, playing a big concert in front of hundreds of thousands of people was a much-needed release.
“It was us, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, all these people,” he says. “We all chartered a big 737, and we all flew from L.A. to the site, and it was just amazing. We had a huge party on that plane, we were all just listening to music and having fun. We were playing craps and it was just amazing—an amazing experience.”
When you watch Korn’s performance on YouTube, you can see both what went right and what went wrong. On one hand, the band played incredibly—any signs of rust from not touring were obliterated by the nuclear-level energy coming off the crowd. On the other hand, you can see a female crowd surfer fighting off dozens of men attempting to grope her.
The separation between Korn and the audience is obvious. I wonder whether it was also apparent in the moment—I wasn’t there, but I suspect that the audience felt like it was in its own world. That feeling helps to embolden bad behavior. In the end, nobody seems to take responsibility for when things go sideways.
As for Jonathan Davis, it’s obvious that his adrenaline was jacked through the roof. He will never forget what it felt like to perform that night.
“I mean, it’s like no drug on earth,” Davis says. “For me, at least for Korn, when we play, I have a real intense connection with the crowd. I’ve never been a frontman that talks a lot but I think by the way that I perform and how emotions come across, that I touch something that makes people want to do that thing.”
He still remembers how the crowd reacted to the last song of the night.
“When we were doing ‘My Gift to You,’ and I had a lighter and I got everybody to put their lighters up in the air or when they were you know all jumping or just pumping their fist,” Davis says. “Those moments were really huge moments to have that many people doing it.”
Jonathan Davis of Korn during Woodstock ’99WireImage
For Davis, the only negativity associated with Woodstock ’99 happened backstage.
It was a feud with a band playing that night on the west stage, commonly regarded as festival’s B-list showcase.
“Insane Clown Posse wanted to fight us or some stupid bullshit that I don’t understand,” Davis says. “But Cube’s people put them in their place and that was it. That was the only drama.”
To this day, Davis is confused as to why Insane Clown Posse had a beef with Korn.
“I don’t even fucking know why they don’t like us,” he says. “I heard that they talked some other shit about us before too. I think they like to start shit just to get press or start a beef and get things going. I don’t know––I was a huge fan of ICP and that whole Juggalo thing. I think it’s cool.”
Here’s something you should know about me: I love band rivalries. I even wrote a book about it. And yet, in all of my research about Woodstock ’99, I hadn’t come across any information about a fight between Korn and Insane Clown Posse. I didn’t know about it until Jonathan Davis brought it up, unprompted.
Naturally, I now wanted to insert myself into some Korn vs. ICP drama. So I reached out to Violent J, who makes up Insane Clown Posse with fellow rapper Shaggy 2 Dope. And I asked him, “Hey, Violent J, why were you so mad at Korn back in 1999?”
According to Violent J, ICP didn’t have beef with Korn at all. In fact, the opposite was true. ICP worshipped Korn.
“What happened was, we kind of diss them in the lyric,” he says. “You know what I mean.”
In case you don’t know what he means: The diss lyric occurs in the song “Everybody Rize,” which mocks Jonathan Davis for a song he wrote about being bullied as a kid.
“It was uncalled for and it was stupid,” he says. “When we dissed them, it was an old lyric. So when we saw them we apologized for that and they had no idea what we were talking about.”
In my experience, Violent J isn’t really an accurate moniker. He was more like Gregarious J. I don’t think I talked to anyone who was happier to talk about Woodstock ’99. He was like a little kid talking about meeting Santa Claus for the first time.
“They drove us to the other stage,” Violent J says. “We hadn’t looked out, and we didn’t see the crowd or anything. And we came out and boom! It was just packed, and we were so happy. We couldn’t believe it. We were so excited, because it wasn’t like the other festivals we’d done. There was a lot of people there that would want to see us, you know, and that felt so good. It felt so cool to be a part of something.”
Insane Clown Posse formed in Detroit in 1989. From the beginning, they were outcasts—too rap for the rock crowd, and too rock for the rap crowd. Both sides seemed to agree that ICP were ridiculous. But Woodstock ’99 signified a rare moment of acceptance. Violent J finally felt like a true rock star.
“We always call ourselves the most hated band in the world,” he says. “And we’ve always played up the role that we like being the outcasts, you know? But in reality there’s always been an urge to want to be accepted to something. I mean, we want to be considered cool enough to be there.Andthat was like the ultimate reward. That that was something that really came through for us and felt that way.”
The band decided to show their appreciation by giving back to the audience at the concert.
“Yo, I know for Woodstock, tickets were a little expensive,” he said from on stage. “And me and Shaggy, we got paid a lot of money to be here. So we decided to give you all your money back.”
Then the band kicked a basket of red and yellow dodgeballs into the audience—each one with a $100 bill taped to it. And once those balls were gone, ICP kicked balls with $500 attached to them.
“We wanted to try to come up with some extra flavor for Woodstock,” he says now. “They were all jumping up trying to grab them, and that would just make the ball fly in the air again.”
Along with the free money, there was also some boorishness during ICP’s set. At one point, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope invited women to shed their tops onstage. Then they doused the women with Faygo soda.
When you watch the video, it all seems playful. The women appear to be doing this of their own volition, and having a good time. But in the harsh light of 2019, the whole thing seems pretty gross. It’s the sort of mindless decadence you associate with the fall of great empires.
The darkest impulses of Woodstock ’99 were already manifesting on Friday—two full days before tensions finally boiled over in the form of riots and looting.
Ernesto was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday night, with the National Hurricane Center warning of dangerous conditions for East Coast beaches.
The hurricane — which over the past week has caused major power outages and flooding in Puerto Rico and Bermuda — is out over the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds up to 75 mph.
The NHC expects Ernesto to cross southeastern Newfoundland late Monday into Tuesday morning.
Ernesto is the fifth named storm and the third hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season. It made landfall in Bermuda early on Saturday, dumping 7 to 9 inches of rain and flooding parts of the island. The British Overseas Territory avoided major damage, and Ernesto is now some 200 miles northeast of Bermuda.
High surf and life-threatening rip currents are still anticipated over the next couple of days along the U.S. East Coast.
The entire Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine is under a high-risk rip current alert on Sunday.
“Life-threatening surf and rip current conditions are likely,” the National Hurricane Center warned, “which means life-threatening rip currents are likely, and dangerous for all levels of swimmers.”
Ernesto was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday night, with the National Hurricane Center warning of dangerous conditions for East Coast beaches.
The hurricane — which over the past week has caused major power outages and flooding in Puerto Rico and Bermuda — is out over the Atlantic, with maximum sustained winds up to 75 mph.
The NHC expects Ernesto to cross southeastern Newfoundland late Monday into Tuesday morning.
Ernesto is the fifth named storm and the third hurricane of this year’s Atlantic season. It made landfall in Bermuda early on Saturday, dumping 7 to 9 inches of rain and flooding parts of the island. The British Overseas Territory avoided major damage, and Ernesto is now some 200 miles northeast of Bermuda.
High surf and life-threatening rip currents are still anticipated over the next couple of days along the U.S. East Coast.
The entire Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine is under a high-risk rip current alert on Sunday.
“Life-threatening surf and rip current conditions are likely,” the National Hurricane Center warned, “which means life-threatening rip currents are likely, and dangerous for all levels of swimmers.”
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Ernesto dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and knocked out power for nearly half of all customers in the U.S. territory Wednesday as it threatened to become a major storm en route to Bermuda.
The hurricane was over open water about 720 miles (1,160 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph) and moving northwest at 16 mph (26 kph).
A hurricane watch was issued for Bermuda, while tropical storm warnings were discontinued for Puerto Rico and its outlying islands of Vieques and Culebra and for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands.
“I know it was a long night listening to that wind howl,” U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. said in a news conference.
An islandwide blackout was reported in St. Croix, and at least six cell phone towers were offline across the U.S. territory, said Daryl Jaschen, emergency management director. He added that the airports in St. Croix and St. Thomas were expected to reopen at midday.
Schools and government agencies remained closed in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, where heavy flooding was reported in several areas, forcing officials to block roads, some of which were strewn with trees. More than 140 flights were canceled to and from Puerto Rico.
“A lot of rain, a lot of rain,” Culebra Mayor Edilberto Romero said in a phone interview. “We have trees that have fallen on public roads. There are some roofs that are blown off.”
Flash flood warnings remained Wednesday afternoon because of ongoing rains.
In the north coastal town of Toa Baja, which is prone to flooding, dozens of residents moved their cars to higher areas.
“Everyone is worried,” said Víctor Báez as he sipped beer with friends and watched the rain fall. He only briefly celebrated that he had power. “It’s going to go out again.”
Ernesto is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane and its center is expected to pass near Bermuda on Saturday.
“Residents need to prepare now before conditions worsen,” Bermuda’s National Security Minister Michael Weeks said. “Now is not the time for complacency.”
Forecasters also warned of heavy swells along the U.S. East Coast.
“That means that anybody who goes to the beach, even if the weather is beautiful and nice, it could be dangerous … with those rip currents,” said Robbie Berg, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center.
Between 4 to 6 inches of rain is expected in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and between 6 to 8 inches in Puerto Rico, with up to 10 inches in isolated areas.
More than 640,000 customers were without power in Puerto Rico, along with 23 hospitals operating on generators, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Wednesday. He added that crews are assessing damage and that it was too early to tell when electricity would be restored.
“We are trying to get the system up and running as soon as we can,” said Juan Saca, president of Luma Energy, the company that operates transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico.
Luma Energy said earlier Wednesday that its priority was to restore power to hospitals, the island’s water and sewer company and other essential services. More than 300,000 customers were without water as a result of power outages, Pierluisi said.
Puerto Rico’s power grid was razed by Hurricane Maria in 2017 as a Category 4 storm, and it remains frail as crews continue to rebuild the system.
“It’s just frustrating that this many years later, we continue to see something like a storm cause such widespread outages in Puerto Rico, particularly given the risk that these outages can cause for vulnerable households in Puerto Rico,” said Charlotte Gossett Navarro, the Hispanic Federation’s chief director for Puerto Rico.
Not everyone can afford generators on the island of 3.2 million people with a more than 40% poverty rate.
“People already prepared themselves with candles,” said Lucía Rodríguez, a 31-year-old street vendor.
Rooftop solar systems are scarce but keep growing in Puerto Rico, where fossil fuels generate 94% of the island’s electricity. At the time María hit, there were 8,000 rooftop installations, compared with more than 117,000 currently, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Ernesto is the fifth named storm and the third hurricane of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Since 1966, only four other years have had three or more hurricanes in the Atlantic by mid-August, according to Philip Klotzbach, Colorado State University hurricane researcher.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an above-average Atlantic hurricane season this year because of record warm ocean temperatures. It forecast 17 to 25 named storms, with four to seven major hurricanes.
___
Associated Press journalist Julie Walker in New York contributed.
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The historical Ten Broeck Mansion and its four acres will be closed until Saturday, June 29 as it recovers from damage caused by Thursday evening’s storms. A quick but powerful summer storm hit the Capital Region and caused downed trees throughout the area.
The storm caused tree loss and damage across the site, according to the Albany County Historical Association. The mansion was not damaged.
“We will be seeking emergency funding to assist us with a tree survey and site-wide erosion control program, as this is the second major storm with extensive damage within six months at our site,” ACHA Exec. Dir. Kathryn Kosto said. “Our visitors share that our gardens are the leading reason they visit our historic site, and we look forward to a site-wide erosion and tree stabilization program to help ensure the Ten Broeck Mansion will be enjoyed for generations to come.”
Mansion tours and the STEAM program, which takes place on Saturdays, have all been canceled.
At least, that’s what the National Weather Service predicts (and the thunder we’re hearing suggests it, too).
A lightning storm over southwest Denver, June 8, 2023.
Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite
Thunder is rumbling as I type, and more big hail could be pounding the Denver Metro east of I-25.
That’s according to the latest from the National Weather Service’s afternoon Hazardous Weather Outlook.
The good news is the afternoon showers and storms could be scattered. The bad news: They could be “numerous.”
Storms are rolling in from the moutains and foothills as you read. As afternoon rolls on, severe storms will likely hit east Denver.
Wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour could take down trees and blow cardboard all over your yard.
Localized flooding, too, is possible.
If you’re interested in floating a toy boat toward a drain and finding out if a clown is waiting there to grab you, this could be your afternoon — if you don’t blow away first. Or maybe you can break out a kayak and paddle through the streets. Some of us might go tubing.
Over the past few years, hail has caused billions in damage. If hail hits, expect more of that damage — hopefully not to your stuff.
In the past, severe weather has canceled Red Rocks concerts — especially after nearly 100 people were injured during a not-so-surprising storm last year. We wrote a timeline of the disaster.
So far, tonight’s Steve Martin and Martin Short show appears to be happening.
The good news is that Saturday through Thursday, it’s mostly not going to flood, according to predictions, but dry heat will be back, so plan to stay hydrated and look back on this flooding with weird fondness.
Forecast for coastal waters east of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Friday: Northwest winds around 5 knots, becoming southeast in the afternoon. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Wave detail: Southeast 3 feet at 8 seconds. Patchy fog in the morning with visibility 1 to 3 nautical miles.
Friday night: South winds 5 to 10 knots, becoming west after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Wave detail: southeast 3 feet at 9 seconds and south 1 foot at 2 seconds.
Saturday: West winds around 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Wave detail: Southeast 3 feet at 9 seconds and west 2 feet at 3 seconds.
Saturday night: West winds 10 to 15 knots. Gusts up to 20 knots after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Wave detail: West 2 feet at 3 seconds and southeast 2 feet at 8 seconds.
Sunday and Sunday night: West winds 10 to 15 knots with gusts up to 20 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet. Wave detail: Southwest 2 feet at 3 seconds and southeast 2 feet at 8 seconds. A chance of showers.
Monday through Tuesday night: Southwest winds 5 to 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 feet.
Hurricanes are one of nature’s greatest threats to residents of the Houston-Gulf Coast Region. That is why ABC13 has teamed up with Kroger and Ark Generators & Electrical Services to bring you the Hurricane Tracking Guide! This will help you chart hurricanes and give you great information about severe weather safety. Be prepared this season. The ABC13 Hurricane Tracking Guide is available at participating local Kroger stores.
ABC13 Hurricane Tracking Guide
Get a free printable Hurricane Tracking Guide here
A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS:
Hurricane Tracking Guide Sponsored by Kroger
Hurricane Tracking Guide Sponsored by Ark Generators & Electrical Services
Denver sounded like a shooting range on Thursday night as one of the largest hail storms in recent years pelted the city.
The National Weather Service reported golf ball-sized hail and winds up to 60 miles per hour.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Aurora CO, Centennial CO and Parker CO until 12:00 AM MDT. This storm will contain golf ball sized hail! pic.twitter.com/LSXCHyvnx0
Residents reported broken shingles, busted sidings and dented cars as hail slammed into neighborhoods. Pets and people unfortunate enough to be wandering around took a beating.
Sirens wailed. Thunder crashed. Electricity went in and out.
Some hail damage at Denverite reporter Rebecca Tauber’s apartment.
