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Last week, when a line of thunderstorms moved across Clearwater Beach, Florida, located just west of Tampa, it unleashed gusty winds, torrential rain and another unique weather phenomenon that ...
Planners estimate the number of people ages 85-plus in Southeast Florida to grow by more than 300,000 by 2050 and say it's time to act.
A conference about “preparing for the silver tsunami” was held Friday at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, presented by the South Florida and Treasure Coast Regional Planning Councils ...
On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:22 a.m. EDT, [a] Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed, causing the deaths of 98 people. [9] Four people were rescued from the rubble, but one died of injuries shortly after arriving at the hospital. [10]
The resulting tsunami approaches the US coast between 6–8 hours after the collapse, in a north-to-south fashion. [71] Waves grow due to shoaling as they approach the continental shelf [ 72 ] but later decline due to increased bottom friction [ 73 ] and eventually reach heights of 3–10 metres (9.8–32.8 ft) when they come ashore.
On June 12, various places in Sarasota County, just south of Tampa Bay, recorded 24 hour rainfall totals of 6–10 in (150–250 mm). [20] Rainfall of this magnitude can be expected to hit this area once every 500 to 1000 years. [21] Farther south, Fort Myers recorded 5.44 in (138 mm) of rain, the most recorded there in a 24 hour span. [22]
West Coast surfers might snicker at the cause, but the National Weather Service confirms the rare 4-foot (1.2 meter) wave was caused by a kind of tsunami, just not the kind you usually hear about.
The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering all coastal regions of the United States and Canada, except Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until 2013, it was known as the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.