The Florida Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday ends on Friday for the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins this Saturday and to help Floridians prepare, the first Florida Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday will also begin this weekend.

Stay prepared for the Atlantic Hurricane Season with Local 10 Weather Authority’s 2024 Hurricane Survival Guide both in English and en Español.

Just before the start of every Atlantic Hurricane Season, various organizations put out forecasts for how busy they believe the season will be.

The Atlantic Hurricane Season continues to wind down as the tropics transition to a wintertime pattern.

When weather teams issue forecasts, they come with certain specifics to help people understand what’s happening.

No more Greek names, retired storms update, and no change to the start of the seasonPEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – The intense 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season brought the largest number of named storms ever on record at 30. It marked only the second time (the other being 2005) that the standard list of names for the season was exhausted, pushing the late-season storms into the Greek alphabet. A new, supplementary list of standard names will take over, should we see another season have more than 21 named storms. In the event the standard names are exhausted during hurricane seasonThe move was made by the National Hurricane Committee after a virtual meeting this week, citing problems with the use of naming storms after the Greek alphabet. This would also match the start date of the Pacific Hurricane Season, but for now, it remains June 1 for the Atlantic.

MIAMI Hurricane hunters are scheduled to fly out on Saturday near the Bahamas, as meteorologists are watching a system that could strengthen into Arthur, the first storm of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. South Florida has been feeling the cloudy presence of Invest 90L, a low-pressure system that has the potential of developing into a tropical or subtropical depression or storm. There was flooding in areas of Monroe County on Thursday and Miami-Dade County on Friday. The system is moving northeastward and away from South Florida.

CNN Weather(CNN) - Another tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic and could strengthen into a hurricane by the end of the week. Jerry, the 10th named storm of this year's Atlantic Hurricane Season, was 960 miles east of the Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is expected to become a hurricane as it approaches the northern Leeward islands Friday into Saturday morning, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said. The storm is moving west-northwest at 13 mph and could also impact the Lesser Antilles by early Saturday morning, Guy said. Meanwhile, Tropical Depression Imelda is expected to dump heavy rain -- as much as 15 inches in two days -- over eastern Texas and Louisiana, CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said.