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Fox Weather’s Kendall Smith and Ian Oliver cover Hurricane Lee in 2023. (Courtesy photo)

Fox News Media’s streaming climate science channel Fox Weather will cover the start of the Atlantic hurricane season with special programming this weekend.

Starting June 1, meteorologists Ian Oliver and Bryan Norcross will anchor “Hurricane HQ: Eye On The Season.” Oliver will host a three-hour special from Caddy’s Treasure Island, a restaurant that was impacted by Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene last year, while Norcross will interview National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan.

Additionally, Fox Weather correspondent Robert Ray will spotlight the recovery efforts in western North Carolina following the devastation from Hurricane Helene, while correspondent Brandy Campbell will present an update on New Orleans’ recovery efforts 20 years after Hurricane Katrina. Fox Weather meteorologist Steve Bender will update viewers on the impact coral reef deterioration has on flood protection from Key West, Florida.

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Fox Weather’s Kendall Smith and Ian Oliver cover Hurricane Lee in 2023. (Courtesy photo)

Before it aired one second of programming three years ago, media pundits and analysts were already making their minds up about Fox Weather — and their reactions were skeptical at best.

There were stories published by the New York Times, NPR and others that suggested the coverage on Fox Weather would be influenced by the Fox News Channel, the cable network that is co-operated by Fox News Media and whose prime-time commentary programming is the original brand of hard conservative. There were concerns raised by some in the industry that Fox Weather would ignore, or take a light approach, to the realities of climate change, or that its coverage of extreme weather would amount to nothing more than disaster porn. On the business side, some analysts wondered if there was enough data that showed potential viewer interest in a free-to-aceess weather network.

A weather satellite captures Hurricane Milton spinning in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fox News Media’s free streaming climate channel Fox Weather will present non-stop coverage of Hurricane Milton’s anticipated landfall along the Florida coast on Wednesday.

The coverage will start Wednesday morning and continue through at least Friday evening, the network said in a statement this week. Milton is expected to make landfall along Florida’s western coast on Wednesday, and has evolved into a Category 5 storm, making it the strongest hurricane to threaten the United States since 2019.

The storm has triggered mass evacuation orders in western Florida. Forecasters have issued a Hurricane Watch that covers most of the state and extends as far inland as Orlando. Local officials have declared a state of emergency, and several airports have announced plans to suspend their operations.

Fox Weather meteorologist Mike Seidel covers the impending landfall of Hurricane Milton on Monday,...

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Fox Weather, Fox News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television (Fast) weather service, will present continuous live coverage of Hurricane Helene ahead of the storm’s expected landfall on Thursday evening. Additionally, Fox News Channel will simulcast Fox Weather overnight from midnight through 5 Am Eastern Time.

Fox Weather’s meteorologists and correspondents will be deployed to the southeast to cover the storm with Mike Seidel reporting from Keaton Beach, Florida, meteorologists Ian Oliver and Michael Estime live from Tampa Bay along with correspondent Brandy Campbell. Meteorologist Marissa Torres will be stationed in St. Marks, Florida; meteorologist Kiyana Lewis will provide coverage in Tallahassee, Florida; correspondent Robert Ray will be in Cross City, Florida and meteorologist Bob Van Dillen will be live from Atlanta. Throughout the duration of the storm, renowned hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross will...

“Storming the Field” is the latest video podcast from Fox Weather.

Fox Weather on Friday will debut a new video podcast that offers an exclusive look at weather forecasts for key National Football League (NFL) match-ups every week.

The video podcast, called “Storming the Field,” will debut Friday, September 6. Hosted by Fox Weather meteorologists Ian Oliver and Steve Bender, Storming the Field will leverage the channel’s exclusive Risk of Weather Impact (Rowi) forecast model to break down how the weather might impact each NFL match-up for games played on Sunday and Monday each week and Thursdays of the following week. (The NFL’s football week runs Thursdays through Mondays.)

Each week will also see a special guest join Oliver and Bender to help dissect each forecast and preview the upcoming football games. Free agent NFL running back Melvin Gordon III will serve as the special guest for the first episode.

Candyman Featurette: "Oscar® winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. Filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods, next year’s The Marvels) directs this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic.

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the horrific true story behind Candyman.