The Lake Placid Memorial Library is set to launch a new pilot program on Feb. 19 called START, which stands for Stay Active Retirement Trends. ...more

February 16, 2009

TAMPA Providing further evidence that there is a reason hurricane season doesn't end until Nov. 30, forecasters are watching a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Sea they say shows potential for development. The area of storms is tucked into the southwest area of the Caribbean, north of Panama. It is in about the only area in the tropics with water temperatures high enough to support tropical system development. ...more

November 24, 2008

Paloma strengthened to a minimal hurricane with winds near 75 mph on Thursday as it churned toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba. ...more

November 7, 2008

Tropical Storm Paloma, the season's 15th named storm, is forecast to be a Category 2 hurricane by the time it nears Cuba this weekend. Paloma formed early this morning in the western Caribbean Sea from an area of low pressure that stalled off the coast of Central America. ...more

November 6, 2008

Schools, businesses and a large oil refinery closed Wednesday on several Caribbean islands in the path of Hurricane Omar, which revved up to a Category 2 storm Wednesday night. ...more

October 16, 2008

For a storm that was expected to barely reach hurricane strength, Hurricane Omar now looks like it could hit Category 2, with winds more than 100 mph, in a few days. It might not be that strong when it gets near Puerto Rico on Thursday, but as it moves northeast into the Atlantic, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say Omar should muscle up as it heads away from land. ...more

October 15, 2008

What was left of short-lived Tropical Storm Nana has become just a mass of rain in the Atlantic Ocean far from Florida, but forecasters say another tropical depression could form today, this one hugging the coast of Central America. The National Hurricane Center ceased its advisories on Nana, saying the season's 14th storm is now merely an area of low pressure. ...more

October 14, 2008

As Tropical Storm Nana weakened today, another tropical depression formed in the Caribbean Sea and forecasters expect it to become the season's next hurricane. ...more

October 13, 2008

Tropical Storm Nana, which formed Sunday afternoon in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, may not last the day as a storm, but another could take its place in the Caribbean Sea. ...more

October 13, 2008

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are watching a pair of tropical waves, one in the Caribbean Sea another in the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

October 12, 2008