Interesting weather information pertaining mostly to south Florida.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Record Cold in South Florida

From the NWS in Miami...by the way I just witnessed snow on top of 30 Rock in New York City.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1230 PM EDT WED OCT 29 2008

....RECORD BREAKING COLD TEMPERATURES FOR SOUTH FLORIDA...

A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVED ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA ON MONDAY NIGHT
BRINGING A COLD AND DRY AIRMASS OVER THE AREA ON TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY. THIS RESULTED IN MINIMUM AND LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES
THAT BROKE RECORDS FOR THE MONTH.

THESE STATIONS REPORTED MINIMUM TEMPERATURES THAT BROKE PREVIOUS
RECORDS FOR TODAY:

NAPLES: 48 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 51 DEGREES IN 1943)
WEST PALM BEACH: 50 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 51 DEGREES IN 1944)
MIAMI BEACH: 55 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 58 DEGREES IN 1943)

THESE STATIONS BROKE THE LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES RECORDS FOR
YESTERDAY:

MIAMI: 71 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 73 DEGREES IN 1937)
MIAMI BEACH: 68 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 75 DEGREES IN 1957)
FORT LAUDERDALE: 71 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 73 DEGREES IN 1943)
WEST PALM BEACH: 67 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 76 DEGREES IN 1997)
NAPLES: 69 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 72 DEGREES IN 2001)

IN ADDITION, THESE COOPERATIVE STATIONS REPORTED MINIMUM TEMPERATURES
THAT BROKE THE RECORDS FOR TODAY:

CLEWISTON: 42 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 53 DEGREES IN 2001)
DEVILS GARDEN: 44 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 50 DEGREES IN 2001)
IMMOKALEE: 42 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 49 DEGREES IN 1987)
LABELLE: 43 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 47 DEGREES IN 1957)
POMPANO BEACH: 52 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 56 DEGREES IN 1990)

ALSO, LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES RECORDS WERE BROKEN YESTERDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING COOPERATIVE STATIONS:

CLEWISTON: 67 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 70 DEGREES IN 1957)
DEVILS GARDEN: 65 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 73 DEGREES IN 2001)
LABELLE: 65 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 73 DEGREES IN 1952)
MOORE HAVEN: 66 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 70 DEGREES IN 1943)
POMPANO BEACH: 68 DEGREES (PREVIOUS RECORD: 72 DEGREES IN 1952)

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Rain and Cooler Weather Ahead

. For those of us in northern Broward rain is currently falling. In the last hour 0.71 inches of rain fell at Pompano Airport. Tonight through Friday we will see rain all across the area with rainfall totals averaging between two and four inches with a few areas possibly getting six inches. A good chance of rain will continue through Saturday into Sunday morning where it looks like we will have our first cold front come through the area drying us out and bringing cooler weather Sunday night. At this point our lows Monday morning will be around 65F and a high Monday of 79F.

I will update Twitter if any warnings are issues and will broadcast any weather headlines as well.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Hurricane Season Not Over Yet

We are late in the season but it is not over yet. Wilma hit south Florida on October 24, 2005 so we must remain aware of the tropics.

Tonight I am watching an area of disturbed weather in the northwestern Caribbean Sea. This system appeared to be getting better organized this afternoon but over the past few hours there has not been much change. The system should move inland over the Yucatan peninsula for the next couple day. After that it could move into the Gulf of Mexico and from there some models bring a weak tropical storm to the west coast of Florida. Other models do not develop the system and some bring the system further west into Mexico.

I will continue to monitor the system so please visit again tomorrow for more.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

October

The tropics are quiet right now but an interesting fact from the NWS is that October is the most active month for tropical systems to affect south Florida. It was three years ago this month that Wilma came across our area as a category two hurricane.

Dr. Grey and his team at CSU announced yesterday they are updating their forecast and are now predicting three named systems with two of those being hurricanes one of which being cat 3 or stronger.

Some global models are indicating an upswing in activity in the Atlantic next week so continue to check back for updates.
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