The indexweatherthe week of, at best
Pre/post-tropical drama — Gulf skies and surf
Fires when NHC active system in the Gulf (CurrentStorms.json)
Photograph Seifert79 · CC BY-SA 3.0
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
June through November. The notch is October.
- Where
- Sunshine Skyway / Gulf piers
- Drive
- 60 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- June through November
- Certainty
- the week of, at best
- Drone
- no
How often we have called it on
We have not once called this on, across 7 Sunday builds. That is our own weekly verdict rather than a measurement of the trigger, and a condition that fires midweek can pass between two builds.
From the field
Outflow clouds build exceptional sunsets 1-2 days ahead of landfall; post-storm surf at the Skyway. Never a fly-into-it signal.