As many as 3,000 people died as the dikes around Lake Okeechobee gave way to a wall of water, 20 feet in some places.

Lake Okeechobee is under a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch as Milton approaches Florida's west coast on a path that could cut just north of the state's wellspring to the Everglades ...

Lake Okeechobee is under a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch as Milton approaches Florida's west coast on a path that could cut just north of the state's wellspring to the Everglades.

Palm Beach County suffered the second deadliest hurricane in U.S. history when on Sept. 16, 1928 it brought 150 mph wind and water walls as high as 20 feet around Lake Okeechobee. As many as 3,000 ...

Map showing flood damage to the Lake Okeechobee area by the hurricanes of 1926 and 1928. Due to the Okeechobee Hurricane, lake surge sparked massive flooding north and south of the lake.

The Lake Okeechobee drainage system is more likely to see a blue-green algal bloom next spring as a result of Hurricane Ian. Lt. Col. Todd Polk, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said Ian ...

Hurricane Ian: There was enough room in Lake O for all the stormwater runoff, so the Army Corps will not discharge to the Caloosahatchee or St. Lucie.

Hurricane Ian: There was enough room in Lake O for all the stormwater runoff, so the Army Corps will not discharge to the Caloosahatchee or St. Lucie.

That's what happened in 2018, when nutrients in Lake Okeechobee were stirred up by Hurricane Irma (2017). Those nutrients fed a bloom on the lake in the early summer of 2018.

However, many of the casualties from that hurricane stemmed from major flooding near Lake Okeechobee (hence the storm’s name). The Okeechobee Hurricane reached Category 4 at its peak, though ...

Keys, including Dry Tortugas and Florida Bay; Lake Okeechobee; Florida west coast from Flamingo to south of Bonita Beac; Florida west coast from north of Suwanee River to Indian Pass ...

Palm Beach County suffered the second deadliest hurricane in U.S. history when on Sept. 16, 1928 it brought 150 mph wind and water walls as high as 20 feet around Lake Okeechobee. As many as 3,000 ...