A top-five warmest October for the contiguous U.S. keeps the country on pace for its warmest year on record. October was also notable for several severe weather events that impacted the country. With less than two months to go in 2026, the year seems poised to finish as the country's warmest in the 132-year record. October continued to keep this year's torrid climate pace going, with the month ranking as the fourth-warmest October on record, coming in at nearly 5 degrees above the 20th-century average. The National Centers for Environmental Information's (NCEI) latest monthly climate report for the contiguous U.S. revealed the average temperature for the country in October was 58.7 degrees, 4.6 degrees above the 20th-century average. The anomalously warm October marked the 21st month in a row with temperatures above the 20th-century average. October nights were especially warm Overnight low temperatures were particularly warm during the second month of meteorological fall.
Hurricane preparedness in Miami comes down to three quiet jobs: a kit you build once, documents you copy once, and a plan your household agrees on once. Do them in May, before any storm watch, and the season becomes something you track instead of something that tracks you. The official Atlantic season runs from June 1 through November 30, though storms can form outside those dates, per NOAA's National Ocean Service. It helps to know what you're actually preparing for. A storm becomes a hurricane when its sustained winds reach 74 mph; below that, it's a tropical storm at 39 mph or a tropical depression under it. The Atlantic basin averages about 12 named systems a year, and the National Hurricane Center tracks every one of them. Preparation also buys you time, and time is the real currency of a storm week. If you want the room-by-room version for an apartment or a family, our hurricane season checklist for your apartment and family pairs well with this guide.
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The Peanut Butter Challenge is an annual jar collection for local food pantries hosted by UF/IFAS Extension and Florida A&M University Cooperative Extension. Launched in Florida Panhandle counties in 2012, the challenge has expanded statewide. Unopened jars of peanut butter can be donated at the Gadsden County Extension Office through Nov. 20. In 2025, nearly...
Is a Florida housing market crash coming? The honest answer is that no dataset shows a crash underway, and a crash is a specific event — a steep, broad fall in prices — not any softening in sales or listings. What Florida shows instead is a market that has cooled from its pandemic-era peak: homes sitting longer, sellers trimming expectations, and buyers with more room to negotiate. That is a slowdown, not a collapse. The distinction matters if you are deciding whether to buy, sell, or wait. Crashes in living memory share a common signature: prices falling fast and everywhere at once, forced sales piling up, and credit drying out. A market where homes take longer to sell and list prices get negotiated down looks different on every one of those measures. For related coverage, see Florida's housing market at mid-2026: sales climb, homes still sit longer.
