JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At 5 p.m. Saturday, the National Hurricane Center downgraded Claudette to a Tropical Depression. Claudette is centered 95 miles north-northwest of Montgomery Alabama, and moving northeast at 16 mph. It has maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from the Mississippi/Alabama border to the Okaloosa/Walton County […]

Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) – The tropics have really heated up this week! First, we are watching a disturbance in the Bay of Campeche. At this point, a tropical depression is likely to form in the next 5 days. NHC gives it a high 90% chance of development in the next 5 days and a 70%

Tropical Storm Claudette Saturday morning as it moves ashore along the Gulf Coast. NOAA Satellite Image STAFF REPORTS WILMINGTON, N.C. — A tropical storm watch has been posted for the North Carolina coast north of Cape Fear in anticipation of the remnants of Tropical Storm Claudette will reform Sunday night as it approaches the Atlantic

(Update: Tropical Depression 2 has officially formed about 105 ESE of Hatteras. It is expected to stay offshore, but it is forecast to be a tropical storm briefly. Should dissipate in a couple of days) When I got in this morning things were pretty quiet, but the forecast wasn’t super Rosy. We are looking at

I enjoyed being a new mom. Sure, there were times during those first weeks when I felt completely overwhelmed and would have bouts of tears. But, in general, I bounced back pretty quickly and managed to keep the baby blues at bay most of the time. The baby blues are common, and a very unscientific

People who tend to go to bed and wake up earlier have significantly lower risk of major depression, according to a sweeping new genetic study published May 26 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The study examined data from more than of 840,000 people, and was conducted by researchers at University of Colorado Boulder and the

Waking up one hour earlier can reduce the risk of depression by almost a quarter, research has found. The large-scale study explored how much, or how little, change is needed to a person’s sleep pattern to influence their mental health. The survey of 840,000 people found that waking just 60 minutes earlier in the morning

A massive genome-wide association study (GWAS) of genetic and health records of 1.2 million people from four separate data banks has identified 178 gene variants linked to major depression, a disorder that will affect as many as one in every five people during their lifetimes. The results of the study, led by the U.S. Department of

A discovery from researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago may lead to new treatments for individuals who suffer from alcohol use disorder and depression. The study, “Transcriptomics identifies STAT3 as a key regulator of hippocampal gene expression and anhedonia during withdrawal from chronic alcohol exposure,” is published in the journal Translational Psychiatry by researchers

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – It will mainly stay hot and mostly dry into Thursday. The heat index will peak at around 105 in the afternoon. The big question is the Gulf of Mexico. At this time it is a broad area of low pressure with no trackable center. Until a defined center forms, computer modeling