Floridians

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The National Hurricane Center is lengthening its prediction times for tropical weather formations from five days to seven days for the upcoming hurricane season, giving Floridians a bit more time to consider storm threats. The season officially starts June 1 and runs through Oct. 30. The NHC…

Hurricane Ian is barreling toward Florida’s west coast. The Category 3 storm is about 265 miles south of Sarasota, as of writing. It’s projected to strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane and to move north and northeast, making landfall on Florida’s west coast just south of Tampa on Wednesday evening, according to NOAA’s latest public advisory. “Ian is forecast to approach the west coast of Florida as an extremely dangerous major hurricane,” the agency wrote. Ian has already sown destruction across western Cuba, as the…