![]() WeatherTiger’s initial forecast for the 2023 Atlantic season holds out around a 70% chance of normal or below normal tropical activity in the year ahead, projecting a most likely outcome of around 90% to 95% of 1950-2022 averages. ![]() What are the odds of a normal hurricane season? Scars still raw: Here's how Fort Myers Beach, Southwest Florida are recovering 6 months after Hurricane IanĪnd yet, with the demise of La Niña this March, an unfamiliar feeling hides in the corner of the Pandora’s Box that is hurricane season: hope. Upgrade: Ian winds topped 161 mph before landfall, costliest hurricane in state history View Gallery: Aerial views of Fort Myers Beach six months after Hurricane IanĪfter Ian: National Hurricane Center used to give 2-day outlooks. In each of the 2020, 2021, and 2022 seasons, the Gulf Coast suffered a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane landfall, culminating with Ian’s $113 billion lapidation of Southwest Florida. since the 1930s, with a total of 25 (!) tropical storm, eleven hurricane, and four major hurricane strikes. In the Tropics, La Niña also fomented the busiest three-year period for the continental U.S. Like the world’s worst gender reveal, the 2020-23 La Niña’s résumé included staggering drought in the Plains and Florida’s “winters” lasting around 4 days. Since then, as everything else has changed other than the 99-cent price of AriZona iced tea, global weather patterns have consistently been in the thrall of the third-longest Niña on record. La Niña, defined by colder than normal sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Central Pacific, developed in the summer of 2020. Ian regained Category 1 strength early Thursday evening, with winds at 75 mph as it heads toward South Carolina.ĭenise Hudson, who lives in Coral Gables, told ABC News that she was ready for the worst, as she hunkered down at home as Hurricane Ian hit her town.Watch Video: A look back at Hurricane Ian’s trail of destruction 6 months laterĪ little more than three years ago, as sports bar TVs were split between coronavirus infection tallies and the XFL, a more subtle but no less x-treme scourge was taking shape across the tropical oceans. This thing is going to continue to move." A 72-year-old man was killed when he went outside his home in Deltona in the storm to attempt to drain his swimming pool, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.ĭeSantis warned that the remnants of Ian are still wreaking havoc, saying, "This thing is not done creating damage. ![]() Seven people have been officially confirmed dead, including six in Charlotte County, officials said Thursday afternoon. "Numbers are still unclear, but we're hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life," Biden said. But during a news conference at FEMA headquarters in Washington, President Joe Biden said, "This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history." He said there is no confirmed number of fatalities at this time. And it's going to end up doing extensive damage to a lot of people's homes." "I think we've never seen a flood event like this, we've never seen a storm surge of this magnitude, and it hit an area where there's a lot of people in a lot of those low-lying areas. Mike Lang/Sarasota Herald-Tribune via USA Today Network The Coast Guard also told ABC News a search was on for 20 Cuban migrants who went missing after their vessel sank during the storm near Stock Island, Florida. Coast Guard air crews rescued seven people in separate rescue missions Wednesday night in the Fort Myers and Tampa Bay areas, Petty Officer Ayla Hudson told ABC News. Thursday, more than 500 people had been rescued in Charlotte and Lee counties. The Florida Division of Emergency Management said that as of 2 p.m. Two men, one wearing a white cowboy hat, were filmed rescuing an elderly man stranded in his car in the rising floodwaters and presumably carrying him to higher ground. He said the rescues began in the wee hours of the morning on the barrier islands.ĭeSantis said that some people had taken refuge in attics and on roofs.Ī dramatic rescue was caught on video in Lee County as the storm raged and flooded streets in Bonita Springs with waist-high water. Ron DeSantis said at a press briefing Thursday morning that search-and-rescue crews aboard 28 Chinook and Blackhawk military helicopters were performing evacuations of people trapped in their homes. 'The damage has been historic'įlorida Gov. ![]() Orlandini said he decided to ride out the storm because he thought it would move farther north. It's stuck by a power pole," Orlandini said. There's a house sitting in our front yard, where we're at. Orange County Fire Rescue's Public Information Office via APĪnother Fort Myers resident, Joe Orlandini, who stayed put as Ian hit Florida, told ABC News' Gio Benitez "there's nothing left" as the situation worsened.
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