Florida Weather

[thetruesms]

Well, it looks like convection is going up a little farther east than usual in South Florida, but with very little storm motion, it's looking like you're going to have to have something go up almost on top of you to get any rain today.

[Patrick99]

Cloudy. Rain looks "closer" than it's been in a month, but still nothing doing. Lot of rain further west near the Dade/Monroe line, but I don't see any of that making its way over here, nor does it look like any outflow boundaries are migrating east.

[dizzyfish]

I feel for ya'll that aren't getting any rain. That is usually my complaint. We've been very lucky the last couple of days and have had some decent rain. I'm almost wishing for a little sunshine today.

[summersquall]

Some tantalizing rumbles of thunder and welcome cloud cover but still - NO rain for days!!! It's GOT to rain eventually.

[Patrick99]

Even today! Clouds around all day long, and only a very brief moderate shower.

I swear, I think I live in the least-rainy neighborhood in all of South Florida.

[gatorcane]

The POPS *were* 60% for today, now I wake up and find they've been downgraded to 50%. I bet you in a couple hours they'll go down to 40% or even 30%.....lol.....because that's the way this summer has gone.

They were forcasting 70% for today last night and now this morning they are down to 50%. we havent had rain here in East Boca Raton for weeks now.

I was driving through East Boca Raton and noticed how dry it was there. Seems like it has been missing the rain. Of course the main reason is because the past few weeks has featured a strong subtropical ridge anchored NE of the area bringing in an Easterly windflow. The regime has kept most of the big-time storms west of the South florida metro areas and mostly over the west side of Florida as Gulf seabreeze has been pinned close to the coast while the Atlantic seabreeze has pushed far inland. Now over the past few days, the ridge has finally broken down some as a cold front has sagged south. So storm motion has been much slower and storms have not moved as far west as they have been the past few weeks. But now in this regime, the only way to get alot of rain is if a storm decides to build right over on top of you due to the lack of movement. The best chance of heavy storms/rain for S. Florida for this time of year (outside of a rain from a tropical system) is when a SW windflow develops at the lower and middle layers ot the atmosphere which brings in the storms inland and pushes them eastward to the coast. That setup was present in the first part of June but has not been back since. With this easterly windflow also comes very warm nocturnal temperatures with most locations near the coast not getting below 80F each night for the past few weeks.

[summersquall]

Statement as of 5:54 PM EDT on July 04, 2010

The National Weather Service in Miami has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
northeastern Palm Beach County in South Florida.

* Until 700 PM EDT

* at 551 PM EDT... National Weather Service meteorologists have
detected a severe thunderstorm capable of producing damaging winds
in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located near North Palm Beach
general Airport... and moving northeast at 15 mph.

* The storm will affect...
North Palm Beach general Airport...
Palm Beach Gardens...
North Palm Beach...
Jupiter...
Tequesta...
and surrounding communities.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Frequent lightning is occurring with this thunderstorm. If
outdoors... stay away from isolated high objects such as trees and
avoid water. Move indoors or inside a vehicle if possible. Avoid
using the telephone unless it is an emergency. Try to unplug
unnecessary electrical appliances before the thunderstorm approaches.

Heavy rains may flood poorly drained areas making roadways
indistinguishable from canals and ponds. Avoid driving in waters
covering roadways.


Lat... Lon 2673 8024 2696 8052 2696 8043 2696 8015
2698 8014 2698 8008 2690 8004 2683 8003
time... Mot... loc 2154z 217deg 14kt 2682 8021

[dizzyfish]

Yikes - we got hammered by a storm this afternoon. 2-1/2" in about 45 mins.

[thetruesms]

Yikes - we got hammered by a storm this afternoon. 2-1/2" in about 45 mins.

I know exactly which cell you're talking about. There was a remark on NWSChat about tipping bucket undercatching in reference to it - it may have been even a little more than 2.5"

[Patrick99]

Wow, some heavy rain, frequent lightning and strong wind near the South Dade coast right now, FINALLY!

Funny, POPS were low today per the NWS at 10%.....but I knew that if something could get going and break that cap today, the storms could approach severe. Had some strong winds just now.

[HURAKAN]

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
506 PM EDT SAT JUL 10 2010

...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT MIAMI...

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 94 DEGREES WAS SET AT MIAMI TODAY.
THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 93 SET IN 2004.

[Patrick99]

I'm hearing unofficial reports that temps got as high as 103 in the western Dade suburbs today.

[Patrick99]

Today was godawful. If I wanted to live in Yuma, AZ, I'd be living there. I HATE when there's mid-upper 90s with no rain. Weird that the cap broke yesterday, but not today.

[thetruesms]

I feel ripped off. In the dead center of a severe t-storm warning this afternoon, end up with nothing. I was nervous already because it looked like NWS had the motion off a bit, and we'd be more clipped by the western flank than get hit . . . then a mile or two north of us, the western half of the storm falls apart and rebuilds a mile to the south of us. Not a single drop of rain, and just a couple lightning flashes to show for it

More storms going up in Gadsden County, maybe we'll get another shot at it.

[artist]

I feel ripped off. In the dead center of a severe t-storm warning this afternoon, end up with nothing. I was nervous already because it looked like NWS had the motion off a bit, and we'd be more clipped by the western flank than get hit . . . then a mile or two north of us, the western half of the storm falls apart and rebuilds a mile to the south of us. Not a single drop of rain, and just a couple lightning flashes to show for it

More storms going up in Gadsden County, maybe we'll get another shot at it.

you can have some of ours! Man! Did we get it today. It was almost tropical in nature in the sense that it came in waves. Every hour downpours, lightning, etc., then here came the sun, just to be repeated several times today. We have had more than enough!

[thetruesms]

you can have some of ours! Man! Did we get it today. It was almost tropical in nature in the sense that it came in waves. Every hour downpours, lightning, etc., then here came the sun, just to be repeated several times today. We have had more than enough!

I could have even just switched places with my girlfriend a few miles away. I love how the weather senses a meteorologist is around and anticipating something interesting, and quickly puts an end to that

[JonathanBelles]

Odd weather day here in St. Pete. We had one line of storms with ground rumbling thunder around noon. Been overcast, but muggy ever since. Now there is another line of storms moving across the state moving toward the coast.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Wind damage in NE Saint Petersburg: small palm trees actually snapped in half...and a metal
water holder thrown across the lawn...station in the bay recorded gusts to 54 mph.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=SAPF1

[thetruesms]

Got a nice show yesterday evening as a couple cells merged and more or less sat right over my place for 90ish minutes. A ton of lightning, and some wind. No damage that I saw, but lost power for more than an hour. Looks like the precip estimate for where I live was about 2". The ASOS at the airport across town got a total of 0.18"

[HURAKAN]

Last night I got 0.56 inches of rain.