Some bad weather may persist in the area most of today, warns Jackson County Emergency Management Director Rodney Andreasen.

State and local emergency management officials are urging residents and visitors to the Sunshine State to use caution as afternoon temperatures climb to the 95-100 degree range and heat indices reach 105-110 degrees in many inland areas of the state this week.

Jackson County is expected to host another round of severe weather Sunday and Monday.

March winds can be especially dangerous these days, when red flag warnings about the probability of fire danger have been issued almost daily in the last few weeks.

Florida fruit and vegetable growers braced Wednesday for what was expected to be one of the coldest nights of the year as temperatures were forecast to drop into the 20s in some parts of the state.

Officials have high expectations for a long-awaited hurricane evacuation route that links the Florida Panhandle with Interstate 65 in Alabama through Flomaton.

A tornado has blown out windows and knocked down trees and power lines near a state park in the Florida Panhandle.

Hurricane Ike’s death toll in the U.S. climbed past 50 on Wednesday and appeared to level off in Texas, where search teams pulled out of Galveston having searched the entire island for survivors.

As Hurricane Ike’s floodwaters receded, thousands of volunteers went into waist-deep waters along the Texas coast to perform a remarkable feat.

Storm surge driven by Hurricane Ike breached levees in coastal Louisiana Friday and flooded hundreds of homes in areas along the Gulf of Mexico still recovering from Gustav.

A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America’s fourth-largest city, shut down the heart of the U.S oil industry for days and obliterate waterfront towns.

Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, battered the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of the nation’s fourth-largest city their worst pounding in a generation.

The wave of storms battering the U.S. has plunged the American Red Cross deep into debt as it rushes to prepare for Hurricane Ike, prompting a searching look at how to stabilize its finances.

Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry and threatened to send a wall of water crashing toward Houston.

Residents in the Florida Keys breathed a sigh of relief Monday as a fierce Hurricane Ike turned west on a path away from the low-lying island chain. But Gulf Coast states watched anxiously to see if the storm was gunning for them instead.