Inland Collier storm history

Dense fog formed over interior sections of South Florida during the early morning hours. This caused an accident involving six vehicles on Immokalee Road in interior Northern portions of Collier County. One person, a 38-year-old man, was killed when his pickup truck collided head…

Lightning on May 7th sparked a wildfire in the Picayune Strand State Forest about 12 miles east of Naples. On May 8th, the fire damaged 3 homes in the Golden Gate Estates area and threatened 33 others. The fire consumed 18,029 acres and occurred during extreme drought conditions …

Lightning from thunderstorms on May 4th caused several wildfires in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Interior Collier County. No homes have been threatened, although I-75 has had to be closed on several occasions due to dense smoke.

Well-below normal winter and spring rainfall along with a prolonged period of dry weather going back to early 2006 caused for severe drought conditions to spread southward across South Florida. As of May 29th, all of South Florida north of a West Palm Beach to Naples line was und…

Well-below normal winter and spring rainfall along with a prolonged period of dry weather going back to early 2006 caused for severe drought conditions to spread southward across South Florida. As of April 24th, all of Glades and Hendry counties, as well as northwestern Palm Beac…

A reinforcing shot of arctic air moved into South Florida late on February 18th, with freezing temperatures recorded once again overnight into the early morning hours on February 19th. Temperatures ranged from 26 degrees at Palmdale to 31 degrees at Immokalee, Ortona, South Bay a…

Freezing temperatures affected interior sections of South Florida behind an arctic cold front which moved across the area the previous day. Low temperatures ranged from 27 degrees at Palmdale to 31 degrees at Belle Glade, South Bay and Ortona, to 32 degrees at LaBelle, Clewiston,…

Patchy dense fog and locally heavy smoke from a brush fire likely contributed to several multi-vehicle accidents on Interstate 75 (Alligator Alley) east of Naples. The worst accident occurred about 6 miles east of the Naples toll plaza where three people were killed. Interstate 7…

Minimum temperatures in the farming areas of Collier County reached 27 to 32 degrees for about four hours causing widely scattered damage to vegetable crops.