Brittany Van Voorhees

Tropical Storm Cristobal continues to gain strength as it hovers over the central Gulf of Mexico. Models, the National Hurricane Center, and the WINK Weather Team are targeting a Louisiana coast landfall late Sunday if not early Monday morning. We’ve already seen a lot of deep tropical moisture this week and this continues to pump […]

Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall near Atasta, Mexico (just to the west of Ciudad del Carmen) with sustained wind of 60 mph around 8:35 a.m. CDT Wednesday morning. The system will hover over land and eventually reemerge into the Gulf later this week. It remains to be seen how much the interaction with land will […]

The National Hurricane Center and WINK Weather Team will be monitoring an area of low pressure this weekend for subtropical development. It’s looking more likely that we’ll have a subtropical depression or storm near the Bahamas by Monday. Here’s how it could form: deep tropical moisture will be situated across South Florida and the Keys […]

The National Hurricane Center and WINK Weather Team will be monitoring an area of low pressure this weekend for possible subtropical development. Here’s how it could form: deep tropical moisture will be situated across South Florida and the Keys later this week along a stalled front. An area of low pressure will gradually develop along […]

The biggest and brightest supermoon of 2020 will be peaking at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, across Southwest Florida. Of the three supermoons this year, April’s supermoon will come closest to Earth and will appear the largest. April’s “pink” supermoon is the second of three to occur in a row, following March’s super “worm” moon […]

Every four years, we have an extra day in the month of February. Have you ever wondered why leap day even exists? It all comes down to math. Every year, the Earth completes one revolution around the Sun. We typically think of this as 365 days, right? Well, it’s actually 365.2422 days and those extra […]

Most of the state of Florida has the potential to see strong to severe storms this week. Right now, the timing of storms moving into the Panhandle could be as early as Wednesday, before eventually moving into North and Central Florida. Southwest Florida will see this potential late Thursday into Friday morning. We’re keeping a […]

A storm in the central Gulf of Mexico became better organized Friday to form as Tropical Storm Nestor. The storm is still battling wind shear, which is clear from satellite imagery showing a very lopsided storm. The warm ocean waters in the central Gulf and increased tropical moisture will help this system get its act […]

We’re now down to two storms in the Atlantic: Tropical Storm Karen and Major Hurricane Lorenzo. Tropical Depression Karen As of 11 a.m. Friday morning, Karen has weakened to a tropical depression, looking very disorganized on satellite imagery. Karen will do a unique loop in the Atlantic today through the weekend, as high pressure builds […]

The Atlantic continues to remain active with three named storms: Jerry, Karen and Lorenzo, as well as a tropical disturbance in the Gulf. Nothing unheard of, considering we’re on the back-end of the seasonal peak! TROPICAL STORM KAREN Karen will be a storm to watch over the next week. Recently, the storm has been battling […]