Bryan Norcross: Remembering Hurricane Katrina in South Florida as tropics quiet down

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Updated astatine 9:30 a.m. ET connected Aug. 25, 2025.

August 25 was a Thursday successful 2005. Just 2 days before, caller Tropical Depression Twelve had formed implicit the Bahamas. From the get-go, it was predicted to way towards South Florida. The forecast turned retired to beryllium excellent, though the tempest strengthened a small much than expected.

Hurricane Katrina made its archetypal landfall adjacent Hollywood, Florida – conscionable northbound of the Miami-Dade/Broward County enactment – astatine astir 6:00 PM ET 20 years agone today.

The tempest was lopsided, tilted by somewhat hostile precocious winds. The strongest winds and heaviest rainfall were connected the near broadside of the system, truthful Miami-Dade County got the worst of it, including flooding from torrential rainfall successful Miami's confederate suburbs.

This radar representation shows Hurricane Katrinia implicit South Florida connected Aug. 25, 2005.

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The tempest leaned hard near adjacent landfall, and ended up tracking straight implicit the caller National Hurricane Center successful southwest Miami-Dade, which had been built arsenic a fortress aft Hurricane Andrew.

After it crossed the Florida peninsula, we knew Katrina was apt to crook toward the bluish Gulf Coast, but similar earlier Hurricane Andrew, we could not conceive of what would hap Monday morning, August 29, 2005 – conscionable 4 days later.

Watch Katrina's Wrath: 20 Years Later premiering Aug. 25, 2025 connected FOX Weather.

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Tonight astatine 8:30 PM ET connected FOX Weather we’re going to aerial the archetypal portion of a bid looking backmost astatine Katrina, and wherever things basal 20 years on. It’s called Katrina’s Wrath: 20 Years Later.

We sojourn the neighborhoods successful New Orleans that were devastated and speech to the radical who were there. The stories are compelling, and the lessons are important.

FOX Weather is disposable for escaped connected your TV, tablet, oregon phone. Go to FoxWeather.tv to larn however to ticker us. 

The bid volition aerial each evening this week astatine 8:30 PM ET, with each 4 parts airing unneurotic Friday evening.

In the tropics today

This graphic shows accusation connected Tropical Storm Fernand.

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In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Fernand passed good eastbound of Bermuda and is arcing retired to sea. It’s forecast to dice retired successful a mates of days.

In the Caribbean, the tropical disturbance we've been pursuing (Invest 99L) is bringing immoderate gusty winds and tropical downpours to the eastbound Caribbean Islands. But it ne'er could organize. 

This graphic provides an overview of the tropical Atlantic basin connected Aug. 25, 2025.

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Atmospheric conditions successful the Caribbean are hostile, and the strategy is apt to degenerate successful a time oregon two.

What's near of the disturbance volition astir apt caput into Central America astatine the extremity of the week.

The adjacent week oregon 2 successful the tropics

Nothing evident is cooking. The wide atmospheric signifier is somewhat hostile to development, but that doesn't wholly preclude thing spinning up. We'll ticker an unusually beardown acold beforehand that volition settee implicit Florida this week. Fronts tin sometimes beryllium triggers for tropical development, arsenic we've seen a fig of times this year.

For now, let's presume that Mother Nature is taking a snooze.