Weather and Hurricane Information for Duck Key

 

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HURRICANE INFORMATION

 

At the bottom of the page are numbers which may be useful if you have need to contact a utility provider or other governmental agency.

 

Duck Key Security District Information

Duck Key Security District personnel have access to a satellite phone. While Security District personnel are not able to speak to island residents individually, should any information of a general nature be supplied to Duck Key Online by Security District personnel it will be put up on the Message Board.

 

 DUCK KEY TEMPERATURES AND RAINFALL

Average Highs and Lows
	DAILY HIGH	DAILY LOW
January	75	59
February	76	60
March	79	64
April	82	68
May	85	72
June	87	75
July	89	76
August	89	77
September	88	76
October	84	72
November	80	66
December	76	61

The average year round temperature is about 75 degrees with the averages between winter and summer varying by about 13 degrees. The climate of Duck Key is essentially sub-tropical marine since it is located 90 miles north from the Tropic of Cancer and influenced by the Caribbean and Florida Bay waters. Summers in the Keys are warm but less so than mainland Florida thanks to offshore seabreezes and trade winds. Winters mild and dry.

Duck Key gets about half as much rainfall as the 60 inch annual rainfall of Miami. Miami's rainfall is fed with moisture evaporating off the Everglades, but the Keys experiences mostly sunny days with about 2 inches of rain a month from October through April. During the summer months the Florida Keys gets between 4 and 5 inches of rain mostly in the form of brief showers and thunderstorms.

INTERNET LINKS

 

NOAA - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/key/

Intellicast - http://www.intellicast.com

You'll be able to keep an eye on hurricane and tropical storm activity through the Intellicast.com Tropical section. Intellicast provides current weather and forecasts, weather maps, radar imagery, and satellite imagery and will send e-mail forecasts to your location.

WXUSA - http://www.wxusa.com/Hurricane/

 

http://www.wunderground.com//tropical/

TELEVISION WEBSITE

CNN Storm Center - CNN has a website at http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=USFL0300&zipCode=33050

 
NEWPAPER WEBSITE

Orlando Sentinel - Hiurricane Survival Guide

The Orlando Sentinel website provides a Hurricane Survival Guide plus a tropical outlook and Interactive tracking where you can dynamically plot the path of any storm since 1900. Those that sign up get free hurricane news and updates delivered to their e-mail box.

GOVERNMENT SITES

National Weather Service, Hurricane Center and NOAA

Weather - Duck Key/Marathon -
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/currwx.pl?cccc=KMTH

Tropical Prediction Center
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

National Weather Service, Key West, FL

Hurricane and Tropical Storm Reports
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browsh.html

 FEMA - FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

FEMA -- Disaster relief information, plus how to prepare for all
kinds of natural hazards.
http://www.fema.gov

FEMA: Preparing for Natural Hazards.
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/natural_hazards.shtm

Floods:
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/flood.shtm

Flood insurance:
http://www.fema.gov/nfip

Hurricanes -- About hurricanes and how to protect yourself and your home.
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/hurricanes.shtm

Tornadoes -- Learn what to do before, during, and after a
tornado.
http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/tornadoes.shtm

 

Florida Division of Emergency Management http://www.floridadisaster.org

Has links to NHC, the National Hurricane Center and tracking of storms in the Atlantic. Monitors the Atlantic Basin for tropical activity. Updates from the National Hurricane Center, Daily Tropical Weather Outlook

 

 MONROE COUNTY

Emergency Management Information Line 1- 800-955-5504

Rumor Hotline 1-800-955-5504

 American Red Cross:

Upper Keys 305-852-9612

Lower Keys 305-296-4033

UTILITY COMPANIES

Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority:

Middle Keys 305-0296-2454

Florida Keys Electric Co-op

305-852-2431

 

American Red Cross -- A great place to start. Filled with
comprehensive information.
http://www.redcross.org

Build a Disaster Supplies kit -- Find out what's essential to
stock in your home.
http://www.redcross.org/services/prepare/0,1082,0_91_,00.html