Ok....We're all set

BUT, others are not...

Florida officials worry about 'hurricane fatigue': A Mason-Dixon poll found that 83 percent of coastal residents still haven't fortified their homes, 68 percent haven't assembled a survival kit, including a first-aid kit, food, water, medicines, flashlights, a radio and batteries, and 60 percent have no family plan."

The season starts today....only 183 days to go.....

U.S. East Coast Has Greatest Odds of Hurricane Strike.... A 69 percent chance this season of being hit by a Category 3 hurricane.

2006 Hurricane Season may not be as bad as last 2?

Phil Klotzbach and William Gray, two of the nation's leading hurricane forecasters, wrote in December, "Even though we expect to see the current active period of Atlantic major hurricane activity to continue for another 15 to 20 years, it is statistically unlikely that the coming 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons, or the seasons which follow, will have the number of major hurricane landfalls as we have seen in 2004-2005."

We can only hope!

And so it begins....in the Pacific

Ah geez...

On Sat. May 27, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), Aletta became the first tropical storm of the East Pacific Hurricane season as she strengthened from a tropical depression and moved toward the Mexican Riviera.

Countdown to Hurricane Season 2006

10 days and counting. Meanwhile, here in Florida, the sales tax holiday begins today to for residents to prep for the coming season.

Congratulations and best of luck to Mayor Nagen!

Meanwhile...The Annual 28th Annual National Hurricane Conference concluded Friday

Lots of nuggets of news to choose from....

28th storm added to 2005 Tally

On 4/12/06, a 28th tropical storm was added to the 2005 Hurricane Season. An unnamed subtropical storm that formed October 4th near the Azores Islands, which then disapated the next day, is now included in the record-setting 2005 hurricane season.

3rd Rainest Day in Tampa Bay History!

More here

Epsilon Downgraded - The Season is Over!?

Meanwhile snow and cold weather hits the midwest and east. Our best wishes to YOU!

Epsilon becomes record 14th hurricane

We may not be done!

The latest that a hurricane formed in the Caribbean was Dec. 30, 1954