PANAMA CITY BEACH — The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore was in town Wednesday with some good news for potential beach-goers.
The oil ain’t coming.
Gulf Coast residents are familiar with Cantore’s front-line broadcasts from Florida beaches whenever a hurricane nears.
“What oil?” Cantore said. “Unless a hurricane comes in from the west or you have a very strong southwest front come through (the Gulf), that oil’s not coming here. Not this time of year.”
Panama City Beach resorts have been fighting fears by potential Panhandle tourists ever since the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast caused millions of gallons of oil to begin gushing into the Gulf.
