Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
After nearly four months, on February 20, 1528, he arrived in Cienfuegos with one of two new ships and a few more recruits. The other ship he sent on to Havana. At this point, the expedition had about 400 men and 80 horses. The winter layover caused a depletion of supplies, and they planned to restock in Havana on the way to the Florida coast.
In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez found his way to what would be Wakulla County from the future Pinellas County, Florida, camping at the confluence of the Wakulla and St. Marks rivers. Narváez determined this was a very suitable spot for a fort. In 1539, Hernando de Soto's expedition passed through La Florida with a similar route.
The storm dropped heavy rainfall to the east over the Florida panhandle, reaching 11.8 in (300 mm) at Taylor Creek on the northern shore of Lake Okeechobee. [158] Gusty winds knocked down trees, causing some power outages. [159] In Port Salerno, Alberto spawned a brief EF0 tornado. [160]
Maggie and Mike McKinney stand in their front yard in 2022, four years after Hurricane Michael struck their community after making landfall near Mexico Beach in Florida's Panhandle.
The first tropical disturbance of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season moved through the Gulf of Mexico and inland over the Florida Panhandle early Monday. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center ...
The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly 200 miles (320 km) long, bordered by Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.
Much of the Big Bend and Florida Panhandle is under an overnight frost advisory, with temperatures forecast to drop to the low 30s in some parts of the area. The frost advisory is in effect from 1 ...
The Apalachee played a ball game, sometimes known as the "Apalachee ball game", described in detail by Spaniards in the 17th century. The fullest description, [8] however, was written as part of a campaign by Father Juan de Paiva, a priest at the mission of San Luis de Talimali, to have the game banned, and some of the practices described may have been exaggerated.