Mark Collins
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Jacksonville, FL, United States
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It’s now legal to water your yard twice a week
Upcoming days of more rain will stem the need to increase lawn watering now that regulations allow for twice-a-week irrigation. → Read More
What type of weather do you love on Valentine’s Day?
Love is in the air on Valentine’s Day and the weather can set the mood for some people. Leave it to the weather as an icebreaker to get the conversation going. → Read More
The return of a comet not seen for thousands of years
Some cool pictures are showing up on the internet about the Green Comet in the sky but chances are your naked eye will only see it by reading about it. → Read More
What makes California flooding so different from floods in Florida?
Multiple intense storms have caused widespread flooding, dozens of deaths, and triggered a presidential state of emergency. → Read More
SpaceX rocket clouds puzzle early birds on the First Coast
Meteorologist Mark Collins explains what caused the strange clouds in the dark sky. → Read More
Today kicks off the longest stretch of cold since February
The chill of winter will stay with us all day with temps stuck below 60 through the afternoon. Skies stay mostly cloudy at times with dry with a cool north winds 10-15 mph. → Read More
Tropical Storm Nicole bringing strong winds, dangerous conditions to large area of Florida
Hazardous weather is expected over Florida this week. → Read More
Time for change: How “fall back” will adjust your sunrise and sunset viewing
The sun is setting earlier and it takes longer to see the sunshine in the morning. These are the hallmarks of autumn as the tilted planet gets less and less sunshine on its trip around the Sun. → Read More
Time to strip the skinny track line from the forecast cone
People’s tendency to overly focus on the track line on a hurricane cone leaves them vulnerable to other risks since it says nothing about track uncertainty or about how big or dangerous the surge may become. → Read More
Tropical Storm Ian moving away from Florida, bringing 70 mph winds
A day after Ian made landfall as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States, the storm had weakened as it crawled across the Florida Peninsula and was downgraded to a tropical storm at 5 a.m. Thursday. → Read More
Hurricane Ian battering Florida Peninsula with catastrophic storm surge, winds, flooding
Hurricane Ian slammed Southwest Florida on Wednesday, making landfall as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm just after 3 p.m. → Read More
Tropical Depression 9 expected to strengthen with track toward Florida
Tropical Depression Nine has formed in the eastern Caribbean, with a track toward Florida as a Category 2 hurricane next week. → Read More
An easy hurricane season so far but luck may end for Florida
The quiet hurricane season has picked up but fortunately it has been uneventful for Florida and the Gulf states. But those areas may see its first significant threat next week from a tropical wave moving into the east Caribbean called Invest 98. → Read More
Silent hurricane season: First year since 2014 not to have a pre-season named storm
This year marks the first time since 1999 that there have been no named storms between July 3 and Aug. 16, according to Colorado State University meteorologist Philip Klotzbach. → Read More
Hope you enjoyed the mild dry weather while it lasted
Rain and storms are making a comeback into the evening hours. We’ve had a few days of pause in the rain, but storms will be on the uptick for the rest of the week. → Read More
It’s our last dry day before the daily storm cycle returns
We have a great couple of days of cool nights and sunny days but the record low temps this morning won’t be back tonight. → Read More
We just had the coldest mid-August morning on record in Jacksonville
If you slept in, you missed the short cool snap we were forecasting for Monday morning when the temperatures slid down into the low to mid-60s. → Read More
Brief break in the heat then ready for a hot week ahead
Here comes a teasing drop in temps that will only stick around for a few short hours but it will sure feel nice in the morning. → Read More
Take your activities outside today without a great threat of storms
Saturday brings mostly dry conditions punctuated with a brief round of passing showers. → Read More
Quiet storm night, but showers are on the rise tomorrow
Today is our driest day of the week as storms will be very limited and held to areas mainly inland toward I-75 this afternoon. By the evening storms around Gainesville will shift toward the Gulf. → Read More