Weather

Lee County commissioners award $350,000 contract to company to take down 28 abandoned homes destroyed by Hurricane Ian

Gabrielle becomes a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Bermuda.The National Hurricane Center said three NOAA aircraft (two P3's and one G-IV) were conducting research missions into Gabrielle this afternoon.

TD7 became Tropical Storm Gabrielle before mid-day Wednesday and will likely become a hurricane late this weekend as it stays away from land.

Climavision, a weather technology company, plans to install at least four new radar systems across the state, which will help improve detection of precipitation. The National Weather Service operates long-range Doppler radar systems across Florida, with sites in Tampa, Key West, Miami and Melbourne, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Eglin Air Force Base in the Panhandle.

Flood advisories have been reissued for parts of South Florida on Thursday, and the wet, stormy pattern is expected to persist as a front remains draped over the region.

The highest tides of the year are here for much of the week, and sagging fronts will continue to bring rounds of intense storms. Flash floods are possible.

Dry and dusty conditions attacked the tropical disturbance, which was on the verge of becoming a tropical system on Friday.

Flash flood risk across parts of Florida will continue through the beginning of next week.

A Charlotte Harbor-based member of the national estuary program will host a summit later this month designed to expand the region’s ability to prepare for and recover from climate change

Rain coverage will increase from north to south as a front and then a storm moves through the South.