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Tropical disturbance near Windwards bears watching
While we’ve been focused on what is now Tropical Depression Igor, there’s another system considerably closer to home that bears watching – the  tropical disturbance near the Windward Islands.
For now, the National Hurricane Center gives it a 40 percent chance of developing into a depression or storm over the next two days.
But it is [...]
Tropical Storm Igor expected to be hurricane in three days
Tropical Storm Igor is back.
The system regained strength and forward speed on Friday morning after lapsing into a tropical depression and stagnating on Thursday.
At 11 a.m., Igor was in the Eastern Atlantic about 465 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, moving west at 16 mph with sustained winds of 40 mph.
Under [...]
South Florida sweats through hottest summer ever
First we shivered through a record cold winter. Now we’re sweating through a record hot summer.
The combined average temperatures in June, July and August were the warmest ever in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, the National Weather Service in Miami said Wednesday.
Overall, it was about 2 degrees warmer than normal, enough to break [...]
South Florida airports could see flight delays, cancellations as storms progress along the East coast
If you’re flying out of South Florida airports this weekend, pay close attention to the storms brewing on the East coast and check your flight status for any delays or cancellations.
Officials at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International and Palm Beach Internationalairports say there have been no weather-related flight delays or cancellations so far, [...]
Big spiders take over local parks, but don’t be afraid
Arachnophobes beware! You may want to stay out of area parks for the next several weeks.
Many are packed with spiders, and they aren’t of the itsy bitsy variety. These are big ones, almost humongous.
It’s the time of year when banana spiders are mature and widespread. Hikers at the Okeeheelee Nature Center in West Palm [...]
Extra troopers on the road for Labor Day weekend looking for impaired drivers
Drivers won’t be the only ones saturating the roads this Labor Day weekend.
There will be extra officers watching to make sure everybody is obeying traffic laws.
The Florida Highway Patrol and thousands of other law enforcement agencies throughout the state are looking for impaired drivers and enforcing the state’s seat belt law. The campaign [...]
Caught! On Facebook
Even if you remove material from a Web site, it is cached by search engines and Internet archives. Once you post a picture, a video or text, it is out there, and you cannot get it back. Ever!
Intending to interview a promising young student, Ana Homayoun of Green Ivy Educational Consulting visited the girl’s page [...]

