Florida Public Radio Emergency Network

Rapid weakening is forecast after the center moves inland Monday evening.

One, emerging off the west coast of Africa, has a better chance of development later this week.

While Tropical Storm Claudette did cause some damage, it "could have been worse."

Claudette regained tropical storm strength early Monday morning over eastern North Carolina just hours before moving offshore into the Atlantic waters....

Claudette was declared organized enough to qualify as a named tropical storm early Saturday morning, well after the storm's center of circulation had come ashore southwest of New Orleans.

Strong outer bands continued to carve through the Panhandle as Claudette moved inland through Georgia.

The National Hurricane Center has upgraded a system in the southwest Gulf of Mexico to Potential Tropical Cyclone Three and issued a tropical storm warning from the Gulf Coast to the Alabama-Florida border.

Ray Hawthorne, meteorologist with the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network, explains the phenomenon that could provide some amazing views across Florida.

The threat of rain will be higher in northern areas.

The wildfires have burned more than 4,000 acres and closed a portion of I-95.

Forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center predict 13 to 20 named storms, of which 6 to 10 could become hurricanes, including three to five major hurricanes.

This upcoming season is shaping up to be an above-average one — but not as busy as last year. Forecasters still warn that it only takes one destructive storm to make it a bad hurricane season.