2025 Hurricane Season Guide: Storm preparedness tips, supply list, evacuation zones
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30 with the peak of the season on Sept. 10. The most activity happens between mid-August and mid-October, according to the National Hurricane Center. Here is the latest news, so far, on the 2025 Florida hurricane season.
South Florida plunges deeper into the 2025 hurricane season with its National Weather Service office in Miami down five meteorologists, a deficit that gives it the highest vacancy rate among Florida's five weather forecasting offices.
🌀 Read the full story: 2025 hurricane season could see degraded forecasts because of weather service cuts
Squabbling legislators have kept the Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday from landing as the new windstorm season starts June 1, but a new state website shows how homeowners can save even bigger bucks.
🌀 Read the full story: Florida offering ideas on how to cut your insurance premium
A new hurricane season has landed amid dramatic improvements to the state's insurance market, even if Florida policyholders still face a disproportionately harder hit than most other U.S. residents when financially fortifying homes against disaster.
🌀 Read the full story: Florida insurance policyholders still struggle with high costs as companies back in black
A budget stalemate in Tallahassee resulted in a tax-free holiday for disaster supplies not happening before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. In 2024, two two-week periods were held to save residents money when purchasing emergency supplies. The first was June 1 through June 14, during the first two weeks of hurricane season.
🌀 Read the full story: When is Florida's tax-free holiday for hurricane supplies?
The key to getting through storm season is being prepared. That's why The Palm Beach Post has compiled tips, lists, contact numbers, graphics and maps that should help you prepare for a storm, and, if need be, get through it fine.
Assemble this now. Put aside in a special box. Keep heat-sensitive items inside home and rotate stock throughout season: 🌀 Read the full supply list: How to prepare your hurricane supply kit
From numbers for emergency managers to numbers for seniors, here's a list of numbers to call for assistance before, during and after a hurricane: 🌀 Read the full list: Important numbers to call, web sites for storm help
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