Elsewhere, Florida officials said there had been no deaths from Hurricane Idalia reported to the state medical examiners, in part because locals did a good job heeding evacuation orders.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall near Keaton Beach, a secluded and popular fishing spot in Florida’s Big Bend region. The beach in Taylor County, about 150 miles northwest of Tampa, is usually a ...

Peaches is a flamingo also known to researchers as US02 — the band he was tagged with in Pinellas County in 2023 following his ... Displaced by Hurricane Idalia, flamingos land in Florida.

A new study by University of South Florida researchers shows warmer, lighter fresh water flowing into the Gulf in the path of Hurricane Idalia may have helped intensify it from a Category 1 to a ...

FOX 13 Meteorologist Dave Osterberg explains research from USF explaining what caused Hurricane Idalia to rapidly intensify as it moved over the Gulf in 2023.

TAMPA, Fla. — Hurricane Idalia caught forecasters by surprise in 2023 when the storm rapidly intensified into a major hurricane overnight as it hurtled toward Florida’s west coast. The Gulf of ...