TAMPA - The National Hurricane Center is watching two disturbances, one just off the South Carolina coast and one in the Atlantic Ocean, both with the potential to develop. ...more

July 13, 2008

MIAMI (AP) – Hurricane Bertha continues to strengthen as it moves over the central Atlantic Ocean. As of 11 a.m. EDT Monday, the Atlantic season's first hurricane was centered about 775 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. National Hurricane Center forecasters say Bertha is expected to turn in the general direction of Bermuda. ...more

July 7, 2008

TAMPA - A tropical wave just off the African coast could become a tropical depression in the next couple of days. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami started watching the collection of thunderstorms and low pressure just after it emerged in the Atlantic Ocean, saying on Tuesday it had the potential to become better organized. ...more

July 2, 2008

More than 140 loggerhead sea turtles have been returned to the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA - Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center started tracking a tropical wave off Africa today, the first system of the season showing potential to develop. ...more

July 1, 2008

Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., a deep-sea exploration and salvage company, said it has discovered two separate shipwrecks in the English Channel. Both shipwrecks, which contain colonial-era artifacts, are outside the territorial waters of any sovereign nation, said Odyssey, a publicly-held company. ...more

May 29, 2008

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Florida deep-sea exploration company says it has found two colonial-era shipwreck sites in the English Channel. ...more

May 29, 2008

AVON PARK — Construction for the targeting systems to be used for the Avon Park Air Force Range's live bombing operations has been pushed back somewhat, but the operations are still slated to begin February 2009, a Navy spokesman said. U.S. Fleet Forces Command spokesman Jim Brantley from Norfolk, Va. said that infrastructure should be built sometime during the summer, though he couldn't be more specific. In January, he anticipated that these installations would have been completed either in April or this month. Negotiations on the contracts for this work took longer than originally planned. ...more

May 27, 2008

Conditions are in place for an active hurricane season, with government scientists predicting an above-average number of storms in 2008. ...more

May 23, 2008

TAMPA - This year, the National Hurricane Center has gussied up its Internet home page and tweaked a highly popular graphic to show people how likely weather systems are to grow into tropical cyclones. The revamped home page at the hurricane center site will give folks a quick view of storms and potential storms in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. ...more

May 8, 2008