A massive Sargassum bloom is spreading across the Atlantic, but Florida’s beaches are likely to stay clear this season. Discover how ocean currents and advanced satellite tracking are keeping the seaweed offshore—and why the Caribbean is facing greater impacts.

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.

Bird collisions with buildings are a tragic reality, but community leaders in Jacksonville are taking action.

The United States has extended its ban on flights to Haiti’s capital until Sept. 8 because of escalating gang violence.

Caribbean leaders are pushing back against a new U.S. policy that aims to crack down on Cuban medical missions, saying that the work of hundreds of Cuban medical staff across the region is essential.

About 150 military police officers from Central America have started arriving in Haiti.

Dengue fever is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected cases of the mosquito-transmitted virus reported this year, nearly triple the number from last year.

Belize issued tropical storm warnings for coastal areas on Friday as Tropical Storm Sara moved through the Caribbean, dousing Honduras’ northern coast with heavy rain.

The system is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm by the end of the day and continue strengthening if it remains over water.

Rides are Spinning Downtown while Something Swirls in the Caribbean

An area of low pressure in the Caribbean Sea, Invest-99, producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms, could soon develop into “Sara.”

Officials are blaming illegal firearms for an increase or a record number of killings in a growing number of Caribbean islands this year.

Increasing Chances of Sara forming in the Caribbean

Fall Temperatures Return and We are Still Watching the Caribbean

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Rafael has formed in the Caribbean and will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands before strengthening to a hurricane and likely hitting Cuba.

A hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning for Jamaica have been issued as a weather system in the Caribbean is expected to strengthen.

The Southwestern Caribbean Sea system continues to show signs of development.

The Southwestern Caribbean Sea system continues to show signs of development.

With a little more than a month to go, Tropical Development Possible in the Caribbean

Tropical Development Possible in the Caribbean as we Near the Last Month of Hurricane Season

One Extended Tropical Model Shows Potential Development

Hurricane Season ends November 30, We're Still Watching the Caribbean

Cuba’s electrical grid went down after one of the island’s major power plants failed, leaving millions without power.

Join Downtown Vision, Inc. and Jax Caribbe for Sip & Stroll Presented by PNC. On Thursday, October 17, from 5 - 8 p.m., the community is welcome to stroll the stunning Southbank Riverwalk.

Two Areas to Watch in The Tropics

Although the Atlantic hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30, scientists say there is still the possibility for more named storms this year.

A Warm Wednesday, Something in the Caribbean and your Weekend Forecast

Two tropical cyclones are continuing to move over open water in the Atlantic, but forecasters say neither poses a threat to land.

Officials with JEA said the city-owned utility is closely monitoring the tropical disturbance in the Caribbean that is forecast to become Hurricane Helene later this week.

Today will be dry and warm but make most of the days leading up to Hurricane Helene to ready for Thursday's Weather Authority Alert Day.

Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine has formed in the Caribbean, and the disturbance is forecast to strengthen over the next few days into Hurricane Helene.

Chance of Tropical Development Increasing, Path is Uncertain

Monday and Tuesday will be important to watch for predicting where a tropical storm may head in the Gulf of Mexico next week.

Possible Tropical Development in the Gulf. Where will it go?

A Few Light Showers then Clearing, Looking ahead to your Weekend

Haiti’s government has created a provisional electoral council.

Shorter and drier days ahead, Fall starts Sunday

Tropical Depression Gordon and Potential Tropical Cyclone 8

As of Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center was tracking three tropical systems, from the Gulf of Mexico to just off the coast of Africa.

As of Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center was tracking three tropical systems, from the Gulf of Mexico to just off the coast of Africa.

The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is debating whether it should remove statues, signs and monuments with colonial ties and how those spaces should be used instead.

The Jacksonville Caribbean Carnival was launched in downtown Jacksonville in 2005 to share the beauty and culture of the Caribbean with Jacksonville.

Caribbean officials are demanding more access to funding and help in fighting climate change just weeks after Hurricane Beryl devastated the region.

Officials say people in the southeast Caribbean urgently need food, water and shelter nearly two weeks after Hurricane Beryl crushed the region as a Category 4 storm.

During the Atlantic Hurricane Season, hurricane tracks change monthly, generally following the same pattern year after year. But why?

A day after deadly Hurricane Beryl pounded Texas, experts at Colorado State University on Tuesday increased their storm forecast for what was already expected to be an above-average hurricane season.

A cruise expert suggests getting trip insurance in case a storm affects your ship.

After hitting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and downgrading to a tropical storm, Beryl is expected to once again become a hurricane as it hurtles towards southern Texas by Sunday evening.

Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government is evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of Hurricane Beryl.

Hurricane Beryl is roaring by Jamaica, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain after the powerful Category 4 storm earlier killed at least seven people and caused significant damage in the southeast Caribbean.

Hurricane Beryl is roaring across the Caribbean Sea as a powerful Category 4 storm on a path toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

Hurricane Beryl is bearing down on the southeast Caribbean as a powerful Category 3 storm after previously becoming the earliest storm of Category 4 strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.

Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to Category 5 status as it crosses islands in the southeastern Caribbean.

A fleet of Russian warships have reached Cuban waters ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean.

The Biden administration says it has sent about 50 Haitians back to their country, marking its first deportation flight in months to the Caribbean nation struggling under surging gang violence.

NOAA scientists say the fourth global coral bleaching event is happening.

Tyrone Bennett and his family have built a long standing reputation with their Heart & Soulfood Truck roaming up and down 95.

Caribbean leaders say all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti.

Exceeding expectations, the biopic “ Bob Marley: One Love ” has been a box-office hit in the United States and several other countries.

Vevetas Tapas by Pink Salt is a place where the you can experience a blend of the best drinks and Caribbean flavors on your table.

Police in Haiti are urgently appealing for help as they struggle to hold back gangs trying to storm the country’s main prison in a major escalation of violence sweeping the troubled Caribbean nation.

A top court has ruled that two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have the right to challenge construction of an airstrip that critics say endangers fragile ecosystems and was begun without any permits.

Police in the Caribbean say they believe a U.S. couple whose catamaran was hijacked by three escaped prisoners were thrown into the ocean and died.

Vevetas Tapas by Pink Salt is a place where the you can experience a blend of the best drinks and Caribbean flavors on your table.

Caribbean leaders have met with embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence.

Authorities in the eastern Caribbean say they are trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada.

Tyrone Bennett and his family have built a long standing reputation with their Heart & Soulfood Truck roaming up and down 95.

Mexico’s president has inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a rough loop around the Yucatan peninsula.

Temperatures this afternoon are topping out in the upper 70s to 80s inland with breeze easterly winds. Rip current risk has increased to a ‘high risk’ due to the gusty easterly winds between 10-15 gusting at 25.Tomorrow: Morning temperatures will drop to the mid-60s under mostly to partly cloudy skies.Temperatures will continue in and around normal for this time of year with Tuesday highs topping out in the upper 70s to 80s. Rest of the Week: Consistent weather pattern for the first few days of the week and with the gusty winds subsiding towards the end of the week. Slight rain chances possibly next week depending on how far north the moisture can reach us here in JAXTROPICS: Tropical Depression 20 has formed in the Caribbean but no local threat to FLHurricane tammy continues to move over the central Atlantic but also no threat locally.

Tropical Storm Philippe is drenching the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as it spins away from the northeast Caribbean on a path that would take it toward Bermuda and later New England and Atlantic Canada.

Tropical Storm Philippe has made landfall in the tiny island of Barbuda as it unleashes heavy rains and flash floods in the northeast Caribbean.

As the number of migrants coming to the U.S.’s southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year.

Climate scientists say storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm.

Climate scientists say that storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm.

Hurricane Lee is charging through warm Atlantic waters and threatening to unleash heavy swells across the northeast Caribbean.

Hundreds of thousands of revelers have packed the streets of west London for the climax of the Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean music and culture.

The system has a high chance of development over the next 7 days.

The Jacksonville Caribbean Carnival, is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness, understanding, open dialogue, and appreciation of Caribbean people and our culture on the First Coast.

Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.

Two taxi drivers have been arrested in the Mexican city of Cancun for assaulting a van carrying foreign tourists.

Mexico’s president says he has offered to buy an American company’s Caribbean coast property for $385 million to end a bitter, years-long dispute.

U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken says a multinational force is needed to help Haiti’s National Police as he echoed recent appeals made by United Nations officials who warn that the country’s insecurity is worsening.

France’s highest court has rejected a request by three groups seeking reparations for slavery in a case that originated on the French Caribbean island of Martinique.

Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret.

Tropical Storm Bret is swirling close to St. Vincent as it begins pushing into the eastern Caribbean, where islands have shut down to prepare for possible torrential downpours, landslides and flooding.

Seventy-five years ago, a ship carrying more than 800 passengers from the Caribbean to new lives in Britain landed at Tilbury Dock near London.

Tropical Storm Bret continues to march westward toward the Lesser Antilles, and a push into the Caribbean is highly likely.

Tropical Storm Bret is growing stronger as it takes aim at islands in the eastern Caribbean that are bracing for torrential rainfall, landslides and flooding.

Dust from the Saharan desert is impacting portions of the tropical Atlantic.This dust is transported thousands of miles and has a key purpose in the early stages of hurricane season.

Several Caribbean nations have struck down laws criminalizing same-sex relations in recent years.

Orden David took the government of his island nation of Antigua and Barbuda to court to end his country’s anti-sodomy law.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives.

It’s about this time every year where we look for Saharan dust to make its several thousand-mile trip across the Atlantic.

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana.

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year.

Dutch colonizers kidnapped men, women and children and enslaved them on plantations growing sugar, coffee and other goods that built wealth at the price of misery.

Two people from Jacksonville and one from Gainesville were among nearly three dozen indicted for their involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy centered in south Georgia and reaching into the Caribbean, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Potential Tropical Cyclone 15 morphed into Tropical Storm Lisa on Monday morning.

From the National Hurricane Center:

Authorities in Costa Rica have found two bodies in the search for six people, apparently including the German businessman behind Gold’s Gym, who went missing when their small plane disappeared from radar just off the country’s Caribbean coast.