The water supplies in Hernando County are better today than they were a year ago. ...more

November 10, 2008

Starting today and continuing for the next three days, fishing conditions will be very good to excellent according to the lunar cycle influences on aquatic life. ...more

October 26, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun releasing water from Lake Okeechobee after record-breaking rainfall and ahead of the storms that are looming in the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

September 7, 2008

Maybe you haven't noticed, maybe you have. State highways in Polk and Hillsborough counties are getting a little shaggy around the edges. The reasons grass is not getting its usual trim vary. ...more

August 7, 2008

TAMPA - Dolly remains a tropical storm -- but probably not for long -- as it moves into nice warm water and the atmosphere over the storm helps it grow. ...more

July 22, 2008

NEW TAMPA - Heavy rainfall again has delayed the scheduled opening of the new flyover entrance ramp at Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and Interstate 75. ...more

July 16, 2008

SEBRING –– As far as rainfall goes, the last two weeks were rather wet for Avon Park and downright soggy for Lake Placid. So soggy, in fact, that Highlands County Lakes Association Secretary John Ruggiero said he saw the lake, Lake Placid, rise about 10 inches from two weeks ago, which is about what the Archbold Biological Station's rain gauge recorded for that time period, according to the National Weather Service. "If we could even get 5 or 6 (inches) a week, that would be a wonderful thing for the lakes in our county," Ruggiero said. For those who long for the days when they could put a boat out on Lake Jackson, "this is just a spit in the bucket," association vice president Dave McCadam said. He added that the rain patterns over the past two weeks were not that far from normal for the northern part of the county. ...more

July 6, 2008

TAMPA - The once-weekly watering rules people have lived with for 18 months will go on until September. ...more

June 24, 2008

A line of thunderstorms moved in from the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, dousing the Tampa Bay area for much of the afternoon and dumping as much as 2 inches of rain in parts of Hillsborough and Pasco counties. ...more

June 23, 2008

The full moon happens today at 5:30 p.m., and with all daytime full moons, the effects during the daytime are as accentuated as the regular increased nighttime affects. If this moon phase occurred at 1 a.m., the nighttime feeding migration would be off the charts and the daytime feeding migration would be almost non-existent. ...more

June 17, 2008