News & Audience Editor

Robin Webb

Robin Webb is the morning news editor for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Prior to joining the Sun Sentinel in early 2020, Webb was a breaking news editor for The Palm Beach Post, an assistant editor for USA TODAY, and weekend editor for The Washington Post.

Teen dies in Tamarac shooting gunman claims was self-defense, BSO says

January 1, 2026 at 3:58 p.m.

A 16-year-old boy died and a woman was grazed by a bullet after a shooting in Tamarac on New Year's Eve. The shooter told deputies during questioning it was in...

People stay inside a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, flooded by rain brought by Hurricane Melissa, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Hurricane Melissa restrengthening as it moves past Bahamas

October 30, 2025 at 8:00 a.m.

Hurricane Melissa is forecast to gain strength as it moves toward Bermuda after lashing the Bahamas and Cuba and carving a deadly swath of destruction in Jamaica and Haiti.

Remnants of Tropical Storm Lorenzo have dissipated in the Atlantic as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15 2025. (NHC/Courtesy)

Tropical wave off Africa could impact Caribbean next week; Lorenzo dissipates

October 15, 2025 at 4:56 p.m.

Experts are watching for a yet-to-emerge tropical wave off Africa that could approach the Caribbean and potentially become a tropical storm.

At the 8 a.m. tropical outlook on Friday, the disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean had been given a 90% chance of development over the next seven days. Thirty-six hours later, however, the National Hurricane Center described those chances of development as near zero. (Courtesy/National Hurricane Center)

As hurricane season’s statistical peak approaches, disturbance in Atlantic Ocean dissipates

September 7, 2025 at 12:17 a.m.

System had been given high chance of development as recently as Friday.

Tropical Storm Fernand’s forecast track as of 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (National Hurricane Center/Courtesy)

Potential for Caribbean system plummets; Tropical Storm Fernand to weaken

August 25, 2025 at 11:30 a.m.

Tropical Storm Fernand is forecast to weaken as it churns over the open Atlantic Ocean, and odds have plummeted for a system to develop near the eastern Caribbean.

An infrared GOES-19 satellite image shows Hurricane Erin off the east coast on Thursday morning, Aug. 21, 2025. (NOAA/Courtesy)

Hurricane Erin causing dangerous surf and flooding as it moves away from U.S. coast

August 21, 2025 at 7:46 p.m.

On Thursday, Hurricane Erin was several hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina and pushing storm surge and deadly rip currents toward the shore. Three other systems may form...

Forecasters are monitoring two systems for development in the Atlantic on Saturday. (National Hurricane Center/Courtesy)

Hurricane center tracking new system in Atlantic for development

August 9, 2025 at 7:51 a.m.

A new tropical wave emerged near the western coast of Africa even as forecasters monitor another system that could develop in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Tropics update at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (National Hurricane Center/Courtesy)

Odds of tropical system developing near Caribbean drop to near zero

July 22, 2025 at 5:46 a.m.

A disorganized area of stormy weather moving toward the Caribbean is highly unlikely to become a tropical system, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center said early Tuesday.

A system in the Gulf has a 30% chance of developing in the next two to seven days, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday, July 17, 2025. (National Hurricane Center/Courtesy)

Gulf system could still become tropical depression, but window narrowing

July 17, 2025 at 7:47 a.m.

Forecasters said early Thursday, however, that the window for storm development is narrowing as it approaches Louisiana.

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