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  Tropical Storm Gordon Forms, Batters South Florida and Keys With Wind and Rain

  September 3 at 8:44 a.m.

  Miami was already bracing for a miserable Labor Day thanks to a tropical wave blowing out of the Caribbean. But as of 8:30 a.m., the National Hurricane Center is actually going to be worse than predicted — that wave has now formed into Tropical Storm Gordon over the upper Keys...

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  Oh, Cool, Miami Will Probably Get Tropical Rain Labor Day Weekend

  August 31 at 3:50 p.m.

  Were you looking forward to a fun Labor Day weekend spent sunning yourself on the beach, drinking to excess, and blacking out in a warm haze as you temporarily forget the world's problems? Think again. Tropical weather is coming.

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  Installing Emergency Generators in Miami-Dade Public Housing Would Cost $150 Million

  August 14 at 8:30 a.m.

  After 12 senior citizens overheated and died last year in a sweltering Hollywood nursing home where Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, commissioners in Miami-Dade County agreed to look into installing generators in all of the county's public housing developments. But now that officials have crunched the numbers, those improvements seem unlikely to ever happen.

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  Subtropical Storm Alberto Forms in Caribbean, Will Drench Miami All Weekend

  May 25 at 10:51 a.m.

  Six days before hurricane season even begins, we already have our first named storm of the year. And it will absolutely drench South Florida just in time for a three-day weekend. Subtropical Storm Alberto officially formed around 10 a.m. just off the Yucatán Peninsula in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, which means the system has picked up a noticeable rotation and kicked up winds topping 39 mph.

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  There's an 80 Percent Chance a Tropical Depression Forms Off Florida by Memorial Day

  May 24 at 8:50 a.m.

  There's already plenty of depression to go around in South Florida before this Memorial Day. Traffic is gonna be a ludicrous nightmare thanks to Miami Beach's totally not-race-related crackdown on Urban Beach Week. The Marlins belong in the trash can, and the Dolphins will probably be even worse. And now, a tropical depression might just roll over the peninsula for the holiday weekend.

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  There's Now a 40 Percent Chance of a Tropical Storm Forming, Soaking Miami

  May 22 at 8:44 a.m.

  Logging into Twitter first thing in the morning in 2018 generally feels like diving headfirst into a flaming dumpster floating down a flooded roadway. Wage theft is legal now! Trump is treating the Constitution like a Russian prostitute! More than a week before hurricane season begins, a damn tropical storm might already be forming!