WATCH City of Tampa 2026 Hurricane Season safety press conference<\/p>\n
WATCH: Tampa officials discuss 2026 Hurricane Season prep<\/p>\n
NOAA stresses that early preparation is essential to staying safe all season.<\/p>\n
NOAA\u2019s forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 to November 30) includes “a 35% chance of a near-normal season, a 10% chance of an above-normal season, and a 55% chance of a below-normal season.”<\/p>\n
WATCH: NOAA\u00a0predicts below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, with 8-14 named storms<\/p>\n
NOAA predicts below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, with 8-14 named storms<\/p>\n
NOAA predicts about eight to 14 named storms (with winds of 39 mph or higher). In that group, the organization forecasts 3-6 will turn into hurricanes (with winds of 74 mph or higher), including 1-3 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5 with winds of 111 mph or higher). <\/p>\n
Per its site, “NOAA has a 70% confidence in these ranges. An average season has 14 named storms with seven hurricanes, including three major hurricanes.”<\/p>\n
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, “With the most advanced forecast modeling and hurricane tracking technologies, NOAA and the National Weather Service are prepared to deliver real-time storm forecasts and warnings. Our experts are integrating cutting-edge tools to ensure communities in the path of storms receive the earliest, most accurate information possible.”<\/p>\n
Recent Notable Hurricanes<\/p>\n
September 24-27, 2024 –\u00a0Hurricane Helene<\/p>\n
Category 4 storm. Made first landfall in the Florida Big Bend region as a Category 4 and created a 500-mile path of destruction with catastrophic flooding, damaging winds and power outages.<\/p>\n
The storm directly caused at least 175 deaths, making it the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States mainland since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.<\/p>\n
September 23-30, 2022 –\u00a0Hurricane Ian<\/p>\n
Category 4 storm. Made first landfall in Cuba as a Category 3. Hit the southwestern coast of Florida as a Category 4 and made a second US landfall in South Carolina as a Category 1.<\/p>\n
The storm directly caused at least 66 deaths in Florida.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n
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Electric car door failures linked to deaths, trapped children and a new push for federal action<\/p>\n
A Tampa mother’s cell phone video from a Halloween morning two years ago still captures the panic she felt watching her 1\u00bd-year-old daughter trapped inside a Tesla Model 3 \u2014 unable to get out.<\/p>\n
Electric car door failures linked to deaths, trapped children and new push for federal action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORIDA \u2014 It’s that time of the year again, Florida. Tampa officials will discuss on Friday how residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38823,7083,7084,7085,7086,7087,276,7154,7088,19726,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-281799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-hurricane-season","tag-citrus-county","tag-desoto-county","tag-hardee-county","tag-hernando-county","tag-highlands-county","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-lakeland","tag-manatee-county","tag-noaa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}