The U.S. Coast Guard has started calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin changing the name.
Why stop at Gulf of America? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages — including a Palm Beach resort with a Spanish name.
A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.
Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the main stream of said Suwannee River to the Gulf of Mexico; thence along said Gulf of Mexico, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the mouth of the Steinhatchee River."
But bridges freeze at different rates. Larger bodies of water, like the St. Johns River, are warmer, so bridges won't freeze as fast over these warmer waters as bridges over cooler bodies of water or land.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already embraced the change. He cited the new name in an executive order earlier this week attributing inclement winter weather to a “low pressure moving across the Gulf of America.
An arctic air mass will channel temperatures 20-30 degrees below already historically cold January averages. The South braced for a rare winter storm.
Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.
A "rare" winter storm, named Winter Storm Enzo, is set to bring snow, ice and subfreezing temperatures to the Gulf Coast states early this ... by Monday night. The Florida Panhandle will start ...
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the
Any snow or ice accumulations would be the first in Jacksonville in 35 years, when a pre-Christmas storm dropped nearly 2 inches of snow across much of Northeast Florida on Dec. 23, 1989 ...