Brooke Hiers just a month ago left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived after Hurricane Idalia slammed into her home on Florida's Gulf Coast in August of 2023.

Kuhn flowers of Jacksonville and Florida State Florist Association set a goal to help people in the Big Bend area who were affected by Hurricane Helene.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Perry to give an update on the state’s response efforts to Hurricane Helene.

Recovery efforts were in full effect across Northeast Florida, especially in Mandarin neighborhoods.

Hurricane Helene, which slammed into Florida’s Big Bend region Thursday night as a powerful Category 4 storm, left behind devastation due to high winds and a historic storm surge.

For the past two years, the Big Bend area has been inundated with hurricanes, including Hurricane Idalia in 2023 and Hurricane Debbie in 2024.

Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Tallahassee on Friday, Sept. 27 at 9 a.m.

Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Tallahassee on Friday, Sept. 27 at 9 a.m.

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Taylor County is under a mandatory evacuation as Hurricane Helene heads for landfall in the Big Bend.

Expecting rain and winds into tonight lasting through Friday morning

Forecasters are warning that Hurricane Helene will intensify into a major storm before striking Florida and further inland as it heads northward across the Gulf of Mexico.

Tropical Storm Helene is forecasted to become a major hurricane as it approaches Florida on Thursday, bringing storm surges on both sides of the Florida coastline.

Clay County officials are preparing for what will become Hurricane Helene as it is expected to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle on Thursday.

Weather update including local wind and rain impacts, storm preparation advice, and weather model forecasts.

Tracking showers and storms, Hot temperatures too

Some areas of Florida were already feeling the impact of Tropical Storm Debby on Sunday as it made its way to the Big Bend area where it’s expected to make landfall.

Warm and wet Wednesday for some, Looking ahead to the Weekend

It’s been a week and a half since Hurricane Idalia barreled through Florida’s Big Bend as a powerful category 3 storm, with winds up to 125 miles an hour and storm surge over 10 feet in some coastal areas.

Crews head to Taylor County for mutual aid.

President Joe Biden plans to visit the Big Bend region of Florida this weekend to survey the damage left behind from Hurricane Idalia.

While major hurricane strikes in the state have happened before, Idalia is special in many ways.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said there was one reported death in the state attributed to Hurricane Idalia, a powerful storm that slammed into the Big Bend region on Wednesday.

Power outages, flooding and vicious storm surge will likely take a while for citizens to recover from.

Members of Flagler County’s Emergency Response Team are on their way to the Big Bend region in Suwannee County to assist other crews in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Idalia.

Florida and Georgia residents living along Hurricane Idalia’s path of destruction are picking through piles of rubble where homes once stood, throwing tarps over roofs and gingerly navigating through mazes of streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida's Big Bend as a category 3 storm. Winds over 100 mph forced a gas station awning in Perry to topple over. Other areas of Perry suffered damage.

Videos from various parts of Florida show how Hurricane Idalia is impacting communities, from flooding to power outages, to people getting creative in getting around.

Idalia is stronger and closer to Florida's Big Bend

Florida’s Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state.

The hurricane will impact the area overnight into Wednesday.

Nicole continues to pivot toward the Big Bend area of Florida, and impacts will continue this evening. The rain will die down, but the strong winds will continue. Temps will be in the low 70s.

Showers and downpours continue along Florida’s Big Bend, south to Cedar Key.  Locally, mostly cloudy to partly cloudy skies across northeast Florida as southeast Georgia continues clearing.  Cooler temperatures under clear skies tonight.  Who is ready for the weekend and sunny skies?

After coming ashore in Florida’s Big Bend around 11 a.m., Tropical Storm Elsa moved through southern Georgia on Wednesday evening.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has warned of life-threatening storm surges, flooding and isolated tornadoes.

Tropical Storm Elsa remains on a projected path just off Florida’s Gulf Coast with possible landfall early Wednesday in the Big Bend region. This potentially puts us on the powerful, “dirty” side of the storm with a greater chance of severe weather.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After VERY briefly dipping below freezing this morning and hitting 29°, we warmed up under sunny skies into the cool low 60s. Expect a chilly night tonight, but not As cold as it has been for the past two evenings. Thursday will be cool and lovely, with sunny skies and temperatures topping out in the upper 60s. Saturday will be the sunnier day of the weekend, we will wake up around 50° and warm up into the low to mid 70s. Sunday will be partly sunny and mild, with mid 70s during the afternoon.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – As the most-active hurricane season on record approaches an end, Florida overall has been relatively lucky. The 2020 Atlantic season, which on the calendar ends Monday, has put up 30 named storms -- requiring the use of the auxiliary Greek alphabet for the second time ever. However, in a season that overlapped the coronavirus pandemic, most storms spun away from Florida. The six-month hurricane season officially started June 1, but there had already been two named storms -- both off the Carolinas -- before that date. Florida disaster-management workers had been at an elevated level of preparedness for three months before the hurricane season because of the coronavirus pandemic.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Floridians in the Panhandle and Big Bend, including those in areas hit by Hurricane Michael last year, could see impacts this weekend from Tropical Storm Nestor. The storm won't have the 162 mph sustained winds that Hurricane Michael brought on shore near Mexico Beach on Oct. 10, 2018. But tropical-storm force winds can still cause minor damage, especially to property still unrepaired from Michael. "There is no such thing as just a tropical storm," Wool said. A tropical-storm warning was in effect Friday from Navarre to Yankeetown.