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The Big Bend region includes the area between the Apalachicola and Suwannee Rivers historically called Middle Florida. [3] [4] North Florida's portion of the Red Hills Region is located within the Big Bend region. The Big Bend Coast either contains [5] or is coterminous with [6] the Nature Coast.
The Big Bend Coast is the marshy coast extending about 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the western end of Apalachee Bay down the west coast of peninsular Florida to the Anclote River or Anclote Key. It partially overlaps the coast line of the Big Bend region of Florida, and is coterminous with the coast line of the Nature Coast region of Florida.
Critically for Tallahassee, the eastern Panhandle, and the Big Bend, hurricane-force winds associated with Helene’s core extend almost 60 miles east and 45 miles west of the center of circulation.
Fueled by extremely warm water in the Gulf of Mexico as it rapidly intensified, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm along Florida's Big Bend coast late Thursday night ...
[214] [215] Due to the large size of the storm, damaging winds and flooding impacted much of Florida's gulf coast. In areas closer to the Big Bend such as Steinhatchee, storm surge reached up to 9.63 feet (2.94 m), while areas as far south as Key West experienced storm surge of 1 to 3 feet (0.30 to 0.91 m).
Additional strengthening is forecast, and Helene is expected to be a major hurricane when it reaches the Florida Big Bend coast Thursday evening, the NHC said, and although weakening is expected ...
The storm is expected to cross Cuba and rake the Florida peninsula as it heads north toward an expected landfall along the Nature Coast or Big Bend. Tallahassee, Florida's capital city, remains ...
By 1995 promoters pushed to sell Volusia and Flagler Counties together as the "Fun Coast". [5] In 1999, when the Halifax area was preparing to split from area code 904 , the Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber of Commerce lobbied to claim the previously unassigned "386", spelling "FUN" on a telephone keypad, as their new code.