Orlando Weather

Dave Ballentine can be reached at gballentine@cfl.rr.com George D. (Dave) Ballentine is a true native Orlando son, born December 19, 1939 to Corbin and Thelma Ballentine at the Orange Memorial Hospital (Now called the Orlando Regional Medical Center)....

Scrounging for gasoline and ice, living without lights or air conditioning and now scrambling for child care on short notice because some schools will stay closed for another week, Central Floridians struggled Monday to deal with the woes caused by...

The Web log is no longer being updated, but read through our coverage from the last page forward of Hurricane Charley's rampage through Central Florida. Sat. Aug. 14, 4:23 p.m. Heavy rain caused the roofs to collapse on several condemned apartments near...

Close to 1 million Florida residents and tourists were told Thursday to evacuate, as Hurricane Charley strengthens and churns toward the state's Gulf Coast. Charley is expected to pass west of the Keys early today before hitting southwest Florida with...

Hurricane Charley slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast south of Tampa at 3:45 this afternoon, swelling to a Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph, and its path veered to take it directly over Orlando. At 5 p.m., Hurricane Charley was...

Hurricane Charley bullied its way up Florida's midsection Friday, flipping small airplanes, tearing off roofs, knocking down trees and flooding roads as it headed from coastal Charlotte County through Orlando and Daytona Beach. At least three people were...

What Lee Coulter knew firsthand about hurricanes came from the fuzzy memories of a 5-year-old splashing in the puddles left behind in 1960 by Hurricane Donna. "I remember the water came up to my knees. But I don't really remember the wind at all -- at...

Hurricane Charley's wreckage in Central Florida varied from the shattered antique-style streetlights in downtown Orlando to thousands of damaged mobile homes in rural areas. Orange County alone estimated $3.2 billion in damage to 165,000 properties....

Read from the last page forward to see developments in chronological order. 11:23 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004 Joseph and Mary Dlubac celebrated 66 years of marriage Sunday at Palm Terrace Elementary School, being used as special needs shelter in...

Where will Hurricane Ivan come ashore? Supercomputers in facilities from Florida to Maryland to California have been trying to answer that question for days. Programmed with decades of hurricane history, updated with wind speed and barometric pressure...

The satellite picture told the whole story: From the Florida Keys to Jacksonville, the behemoth called Frances smothered just about every one of Florida's 65,758 square miles. "To have a hurricane this large and this strong covering an entire state . . ....

Hurricane Frances crawled across the Florida peninsula Sunday, leaving a record 5 million people in the state without power, damaging homes, flooding roadways and prompting the governor to divert gasoline supplies to rescue agencies. Florida's second...