Some Florida Geography As We Approach Hurricane Season

[gatorcane]

South Florida (aka Gold Coast): Metro Palm Beach including Jupiter,Boca Raton-Ft. Lauderdale-Miami-Dade

"Straits of Florida" - the passage between the Bahamas and South Florida down through the passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba

Southwest Florida: Punta Gorda-Ft.Myers-Naples

Florida Keys (inhabitated): Ocean Reef at the northern end of Key Largo to Key West

Florida Keys (marine sanctuary): Atlantic waters from Key Largo to Dry Tortugas

Florida Bay: Body of water between Mainland South Florida (Mainland Monroe) and the Florida Keys

West-Central Florida (Sun Coast): Tampa-Sarasota-St.Petersburg-Clearwater-Venice

West-Central Florida (Nature coast): New Port Richey through Cedar Key

East-Central Florida (Treasure Coast): Vero Beach-Ft. Pierce-Port St. Lucie-Hobe Sound

East-Central Florida (Space Coast): Cape Canaveral-Melbourne-Cocoa Beach

Northeast Florida: Jacksonville-St.Augustine-Daytona Beach

The Forgotten Coast: The coastline from Mexico Beach around to St. Marks (including Cape
San Blas, Apalachicola, St. George Island, Dog Island and Carrabelle)

Northwest Florida (aka Panhandle or Emerald Coast): Pensacola-Destin-Panama City Beach to Big-Bend

Anything else I miss I'll update the list

[weatherwindow]

good morning chris......florida keys actually encompass all the keys from elliot key, just south of key biscayne, to loggerhead key, just west of garden key, at the western terminus of the dry tortugas....while the uninhabited keys east and north of key largo are rarely mentioned in advisories, the keys are generally considered to extend west of key west out to the dry tortugas for the advisory purposes...rich

[gatorcane]

good morning chris......florida keys actually encompass all the keys from elliot key, just south of key biscayne, to loggerhead key, just west of garden key, at the western terminus of the dry tortugas....while the uninhabited keys east and north of key largo are rarely mentioned in advisories, the keys are generally considered to extend west of key west out to the dry tortugas for the advisory purposes...rich

Rich I thought about that, it's funny you mention it. Okay I changed the definition for the FL Keys

[Derek Ortt]

one of those keys is not uninhabited. Islandia

It is merely accessable by boat alone though

[WeatherNole]

Big-bend of Florida: mostly unpopulated but includes Apalachicola

Northwest Florida (aka Panhandle or Emerald Coast): Pensacola-Destin-Panama City Beach to Big-Bend

Anything else I miss I'll update the list

The coastline from Mexico Beach around to St. Marks (including Cape San Blas, Apalachicola, St. George Island, Dog Island and Carrabelle) is known as the "Forgotten Coast".

Mike

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[SouthFloridawx]

Big-bend of Florida: mostly unpopulated but includes Apalachicola
Northwest Florida (aka Panhandle or Emerald Coast): Pensacola-Destin-Panama City Beach to Big-Bend
Anything else I miss I'll update the list

The coastline from Mexico Beach around to St. Marks (including Cape San Blas, Apalachicola, St. George Island, Dog Island and Carrabelle) is known as the "Forgotten Coast".
Mike
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That's kind of weird that it's the forgotten coast and he forgot to add it to his list. Kind of ironic eh?

[gatorcane]

maybe it's just a joke. Is it really the "Forgotten coast?" I've been in Florida for 22 years and hadn't heard of it?

[Recurve]

Florida Keys may geologically mean from Elliott through the entire chain as far as dry Tortugas, but geographically the islands above Key Largo are rarely called or considered the "Florida Keys," even for NWS purposes. For one, they are in Miami-Dade County, not Monroe with the rest of the Keys. They are outside the Key West NWS CWA, I believe. And they are uninhabited. I hear them called "Biscayne Bay islands" much more than part of the Florida Keys.

"Islandia" was an incorporated municipality that was platted by never developed or settled by anyone, AFAIK. The local weather radar display still labels Islandia, but it was de-incorporated I believe and has no population.

Elliott Key and Boca Chita (not Chica, which is a Naval Air Station in the Lower Keys) had a few individual residents over the years. Read "Charlotte's Story" for an account of living there in the 1930s, including during the Labor Day Hurricane.

The inhabitated "Florida Keys" -- what everyone considers The Keys -- run from Ocean Reef at the very northern end of Key Largo to Key West. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary encompasses oceanside waters from Key Largo to the Dry Tortugas.

The waters between the Keys and mainland Florida are often called just Florida Bay, but there are enclosed bays running northeast to southwest along Key Largo before the open waters of Florida Bay: Blackwater Sound, Tarpon Basin, and Buttonwood Sound.

[WeatherNole]

maybe it's just a joke. Is it really the "Forgotten coast?" I've been in Florida for 22 years and hadn't heard of it?

The name is fairly "new" (my guess is within the last decade or so). When gulf front property started to explode in value, the residents of the gulf coast east of Panama City wanted some kind of identity. Cape San Blas is gorgeous, as is St. George Island. The fishing villages between Apalachicola and St. Marks are also growing rapidly with new developments (which could be distastrous if the "Big One" ever hits in Apalachee Bay, home to the largest S.L.O.S.H. storm surge value of all the forecast basins).

http://www.forgotten-florida.com/

Mike

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[gatorcane]

Weathernole and recurve I added your geographical areas to the list. Recurve, interesting history about the FL Keys, thanks for the comments and thanks for the link weathernole. I imagine at some point the coast will be named something else other than Forgotten once enough people move there

[jdray]

maybe it's just a joke. Is it really the "Forgotten coast?" I've been in Florida for 22 years and hadn't heard of it?

The name is fairly "new" (my guess is within the last decade or so). When gulf front property started to explode in value, the residents of the gulf coast east of Panama City wanted some kind of identity. Cape San Blas is gorgeous, as is St. George Island. The fishing villages between Apalachicola and St. Marks are also growing rapidly with new developments (which could be distastrous if the "Big One" ever hits in Apalachee Bay, home to the largest S.L.O.S.H. storm surge value of all the forecast basins).

http://www.forgotten-florida.com/

Mike



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I used to live in Carrabelle, back then it was sparse, havent been back in years. Wonder how busy it is now...