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Power outages and storm updates

Many Duval County homes are currently without power, click here to view JEA’s real-time map. Other storm-related updates… -> The Jacksonville International Airport remains open, but expect many individual flights to be canceled. However as of 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, AirJTA public bus service was suspended and is not expected to resume until Friday, August 22. -> [...]

Tropical Storm Fay - Radar Loop

Jacksonville braces for the storm

It’s looking more and more like Tropical Storm Fay will become Hurricane Fay by tomorrow and then turn around and slam into the First Coast on Thursday. The worst case scenario seems to be sustained winds of up to 80 or 90 miles per hour, perhaps gusting a bit higher. Schools in Duval [...]

Tropical Storm Fay may stall over the First Coast later in the week

It looks like Tropical Storm Fay will reach Hurricane status just before hitting land near Tampa tomorrow. Following that, the storm will slowly weaken as it travels across the state and dumps rain over most of Florida. The new forecast at 5pm has the storm blowing into town early Wednesday and lingering for up to [...]

A Comfortable Couple of Days

If you’ve got any gardening or yard work that needs to be done, now is probably a pretty good time to go for it. The record low for tomorrow is 59 degrees, but the current forecasts on First Coast News and the Weather Channel seem to be calling for an early morning start of between 54 [...]

Wet & Windy Weather Causes Problems…

Rain and flooding continue to cause problems this afternoon. There are some pretty major delays and backups on I-95 at the interchange with I-10, due to some road closures and redirection of traffic. The roads are now supposedly back open, but for a while it really disrupted things. First Coast News is [...]

Average Temperatures Starting to Drop

It’s raining out right now and a lot of people are wondering when it’s going to start getting cooler already.  It’s true that we’ve had a warmer than average month so far,  but that probably won’t last for too much longer.  There’s predicted to be a slight dip in the temperature this week.  Based on historical averages, [...]

Tropical Storm Barry

Well, it looks like it’s going to be a soaking wet weekend.  And that’s a good thing since we desperately need the rainfall to prevent some of these fires. Some useful links… First Coast News - Stormtrack 2007   Weather Underground - Tropical Storm Barry   NOAA Tracking Map / NHC Advisory Warnings