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Fort Lauderdale's chances were upped to 46% and Miami had a 26% chance. The chances for hurricane-force winds in West Palm Beach were 8%, with Fort Lauderdale at 6% and Miami at 2%.
August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Its eye crossed Cayo Costa and later the mainland at Punta Gorda, before crossing the state with much of its intensity retained. A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was ...
Collectively this storm, the 1926 Miami hurricane, and the 1928 hurricane claimed over 3,280 lives in Florida—three of the state's 10 most impactful weather events in the 20th century; the 1926 storm would be the costliest of any U.S. hurricane in present monetary values.
In Florida, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Miami received reports of flash flooding from Fort Lauderdale to downtown Miami. The storm has dumped more than 10 inches of rain in some regions ...
A view from the interior of Hurricane Betsy's eye, taken by Hurricane hunters before its Florida landfall September 8, 1965– Hurricane Betsy passes through the Florida Keys as a major hurricane, producing moderate rainfall reaching 11.8 inches (300 mm) at Plantation Key and wind gusts reaching an estimated peak of 160 mph (255 km/h) in North ...
While hurricane season doesn't officially end until Nov. 30, this storm wasn't associated with a tropical system, according to Luke Culver, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami.
The NHL’s Florida Panthers were delayed more than three hours from departing Fort Lauderdale for their nearly six-hour flight to Edmonton for Games 3 and 4 of the Stanley Cup Final.
The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane (Air Weather Service designation: George [2] [nb 1]) was a long-lived and an intense tropical cyclone that affected the Bahamas, southernmost Florida, and the Gulf Coast of the United States in September 1947.