2020 Weather Alerts

Face-to-face and online classes at the University of Florida will be canceled and campus will be closed Thursday, Nov. 12 because of Tropical Storm Eta. Essential employees should check with their supervisors. Classes will resume and campus will reopen Friday, Nov. 13. Clinical personnel and all UF Health staff in Gainesville should follow their prescribed procedures. Those on the UF Health Jacksonville campus and in other locations around the state, including those with UF/IFAS, should check for information regarding their facilities, at the UF Home Page, www.ufl.edu, and monitor local news media for further details and updates

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Eta. Here’s what we know today: Eta’s track shifted significantly overnight and Alachua County is under a tropical storm warning.  UF units should monitor for announcements from UF and closely follow forecasts.   There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge along portions of the Florida Gulf Coast from Bonita Beach to the Suwannee River, including Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor. On the forecast track, the center of Eta will move closer to but offshore of the southwest coast of Florida today, approach the west-central coast of Florida tonight and move…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Eta. Here’s what we know today: Heavy rainfall from Eta will continue across South Florida today and tonight. Additional flash and urban flooding, especially across previously inundated areas, will be possible in South Florida. Little motion is expected today. Eta could approach the northeastern or north-central U.S. Gulf Coast later this week as a tropical storm and possibly bring impacts from rain, wind and storm surge. The current National Hurricane Center forecast brings the center near the Florida Panhandle on Sunday morning. UF units with operations in Florida’s Panhandle and Big…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Eta. Here’s what we know today: Life-threatening flash flooding will be possible across urban areas of southeast Florida today. Currently, all hurricane watches and warnings and storm surge watches and warnings are canceled for Florida. Gusts to tropical storm-force are still possible in the heavier rain bands thought this afternoon in South Florida and the Keys. A tropical storm warning is in effect only for the Dry Tortugas. Eta could approach the Florida Gulf Coast later this week as a tropical storm and possibly bring impacts from rain, wind and storm…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Eta. Here’s what we know today:     Heavy rainfall will continue across Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas and southern Florida and spread north into the rest of Florida.     Tropical Storm Eta is now forecasted to be a hurricane as it passes near and over the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. The forecast remains uncertain for areas farther north in Florida.     Hurricane conditions are expected by early Monday in portions of the Florida Keys, where a hurricane warning is now in effect. Damaging tropical-storm-force winds are expected to begin…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Storm Eta. Here’s what we know today:  Heavy rainfall will continue across the Cayman Islands, portions of Cuba and Jamaica and will spread north into the Bahamas and southern Florida.   Eta is expected to bring heavy rainfall and tropical storm force winds to South Florida and the Keys. Impacts to other areas of the state remain uncertain.  Tropical storm conditions are expected by late Sunday in the Florida Keys and along portions of the southeast Florida coast. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Monroe and Miami-Dade counties. Moreover, tropical storm watches have…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Depression Eta. Here’s what we know today: Rainfall associated with Eta will continue to result in catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding across portions of Central America, along with landslides in areas of higher terrain.  This weekend Eta is expected to bring tropical storm conditions to portions of the Cayman Islands and portions of western and central Cuba, where storm warnings are in effect. There is an increasing risk of impacts from wind and flash and urban flooding due to the rainfall in portions of southern Florida and the Florida Keys…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Tropical Depression Eta. Here’s what we know today: Through Monday morning, heavy rainfall from Eta will lead to catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding across portions of Central America. Eta is forecast to regain strength once it enters the Caribbean Sea.   While is too soon for the National Hurricane Center to determine the future track and intensity of Eta, there is an increasing risk of impacts from wind and rainfall in portions of the Cayman Islands, Cuba, southern Florida and the Florida Keys this weekend and early next week. Moreover, the center…

University of Florida officials are actively monitoring Tropical Storm Eta, and much remains unknown about the storm’s path.  Here’s what we know today: Through Sunday morning, heavy rainfall from Eta will lead to catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding and river flooding across portions of Central America. Eta is expected to become a tropical depression tonight. Eta is forecast to regain tropical storm strength before it moves across portions of Cuba and approaches southern Florida this weekend. While is too soon for the National Hurricane Center to determine the exact timing, magnitude and location of possible impacts from wind and rainfall, UF…

University of Florida officials are continuing to monitor Hurricane Zeta. Here’s what we know today: A life-threatening storm is expected along portions of the northern Gulf Coast beginning later today. The National Hurricane Center projects Zeta will make a landfall this afternoon and a second landfall this evening in Mississippi before moving rapidly over southeastern Mississippi, Alabama and northern Georgia overnight. Hurricane Zeta’s greatest threat to Florida remains in the Panhandle. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Holmes counties. Greatest wind threat is in the western Panhandle, where sustained tropical storm-force winds are possible,…