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What You Need To Prepare
On this episode of Florida Matters, we talk with emergency management leaders from Hillsborough, Pinellas and Hernando counties about how they’re getting ready for hurricane season.
Hurricanes - Need To Know
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Florida professional meteorologists gather to prepare virtual attendees for this season's most active weeks ahead. Classes are offered each day, 4 times a day at different times. -
Hurricane Beryl made headlines across the country: from Texas, the Ohio River Valley, and eventually the parts of the Northeast. -
The famous university releases updates of their hurricane season forecast throughout the season. This time the new forecast calls for up to 25 named storms. -
They added two named storms and a major hurricane to their outlook, primarily because of near-record warm Atlantic and Caribbean waters and a lack of strong vertical wind shear. -
Even after storms lose their hurricane status and head far inland, they can still cause dangerous floods. Storms like Beryl pose risks far from the coast, even in Canada. -
At least three deaths were reported after Beryl's landfall. In Houston, the storm flooded roads and took down traffic lights. Cleanup could take weeks, officials said. -
Beryl is set to strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall along the Texas coast early Monday morning. -
Texas officials are urging coastal residents to evacuate as the storm nears. Beryl, now a tropical storm, is expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. -
After a rash of rip current deaths in Florida, officials are urging people to stay extra vigilant the remainder of the holiday weekend as distant Beryl churns up the surf along the Gulf coast and southeastern US. Here's Florida Storms'digital meteorologist Leslie Hudson with more. -
The relief efforts include the Jamaican American Association of Central Florida and the heads of organizations in the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce of Florida. -
Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Tulum as a Category 2 storm early Friday, following a destructive streak through the Caribbean. It's forecast to gain strength as it moves over the Gulf of Mexico. -
Florida residents should prepare for a storm by having a two-week supply of food and medication for their pets. An appropriate-sized crate while evacuating and transporting pets is also a must.
