A Hurricane Watch has been issued along Florida's Gulf Coast, including the Tampa Bay area, ahead of the expected wind, rain, and storm surge from Hurricane Ian later this week.
disturbance that the national hurricane center has recognized. this area north of aruba could develop into our next named storm. computer models starting to cluster where 24 hours ago, there was quite a spread on timing and location. but now, we are really focusing our attention on the southern florida peninsula. midweek this week. lots to talk about. absolutely. we will be tracking it throughout the weekend. thanks so much. now, the damage that fiona left in puerto rico will take some time to repair. the storm killed two people exactly two years after hurricane maria devastated the island. 100% federal funding for debris removal authorized by president biden. as of thursday, 890,000 customers now have running water and 38% of the homes have electricity but officials cannot estimate when power will
here. that means it will impact bermuda. we have hurricane warnings in and storm surge and hurricane force winds likely. the other big storm is the latest edition. tropical depression 9 forming across the central caribbean. potentially impacting jamaica and into western cuba by early monday and into tuesday and wednesday a potential impact into the southern florida peninsula. what s new overnight is that the consensus, the various computer models that we look at as meteorologists have all honed in on southern florida. so we re going to keep a close eye on, again, the differences between the global model and european model showing very little spread whereas a few hours ago there was several hundred miles between the two outcomes of these two particular
updating these building codes, but for right now it s really important people get the message they need to prepare now. given the lax zoning laws or lack thereof in houston, should we expect to see the same level of destruction in florida that we saw there? well, there s no question that we re seeing more severe and more frequent flooding events. just in the gulf region alone we ve soon 500 to 1,000-year flooding events in the past two years, the memorial day flood in texas, the tax day flood, harvey, and two major storms in l.a. will. so clearly we need to be thinking when we rebuild how we do that safer and stronger because we know this is going to happen again and frankly it s unfair to have taxpayers on the hook to just rebuild over and goempb. it makes much more sense to rebuild higher and stronger now after these storms hit, particularly in the houston area where i am now, then it does to have those taxpayer dollars to be spent on rebuilding. that s conversation to have at a