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The first three months of the year is usually the time we see the coolest weather over 12 months. And although it isn’t feeling like summer yet exactly, our “cool” season hasn’t been so cool.

A tree that’s larger than the Statue of Liberty from its base to the torch is trying to be shielded away from wildfires in California.

Forecasting Change: Summer is here and it’s getting hotter Tags:  Summer temperatures ORLANDO, Fla. – Summer has a magical feel for most of America. It’s the time when school is out, lazy days arrive, families take vacations and the living is easy. For Floridians, though, it marks the return of the “Mean Season,” the time of year when we are truly tropical and have severe weather potential. It is also getting hotter. Check out the temperature trends in the graphics below. Over the last 50 years, Orlando has been inching up in the average summer temperature department. Summer temper...

Forecasting Change: Earlier starts to hurricane season Warming waters over past century causing earlier tropical development Tags:  In this image, NOAA's GOES satellite shows Hurricane Irma as it makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean into the Caribbean -- a Category 5 storm with winds as high as 180 mph -- at about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday (NASA/NOAA GOES Project via Getty Images). (Getty Images) Orlando, FLA. – This week on Forecasting Change, we take an early look at hurricane season. For now, the tropics have gone quiet again. But this time last week, we were all focused on subtropical sto...

Here’s the impact global warming has on hurricane season, according to forecasters Warmer atmosphere means stronger storms, not more of them Tags:  ORLANDO, Fla. – Most scientists agree that the globe is warming. Over the course of the last century, the water temperature of the tropical Atlantic has increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. With that in mind, it only makes sense that the global warming is leading to an increase in hurricane activity -- or does it? News 6 chief meteorologist Tom Sorrells posed the question to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University who sp...