Southern Plains winter wx thread (2008-2009)

[Brent]

Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 8. Wind chill values as low as -3. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Parts of the Florida panhandle will fall into the upper single digits and low teens with this event. VERY IMPRESSIVE!

[somethingfunny]

Currently:
Fair

45°F
(7°C)

Today: Sunny, with a high near 58. North northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. North northeast wind around 15 mph.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. Northeast wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 17. Northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. East northeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming south southeast.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 36. South southwest wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 60. West wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. North northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.



Hot diggity, I haven't seen weather this cold since it happened about once a week all of last month!

We dodged a bullet.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Joe Bastardi on the Plains - Enjoy next week, because winter will be back the week after.

Interesting..

[vbhoutex]

Parts of the Florida panhandle will fall into the upper single digits and low teens with this event. VERY IMPRESSIVE!

Laurel Hill, FL. near the AL border North of Crestview is being forecast at 7ºf for Friday am. Crestview, about 20 miles South of that is expecting 12ºf and Niceville, where my Mom lives about 15 miles South of that is expecting is expecting 15ºf. I do have to say that I have seen the edges of Pensacola Bay freeze a couple of times in my life though, so it isn't unprecedented, just very rare. Last time that I know about was during Christmas vacation when my kids were still in their single digits so that would have been about 20 years ago.

[JonathanBelles]

single digits anywhere in FL is extremely impressive. Poor Brent is happy with his single digits in AL. lol 7 in FL is much better than 7 AL in my opinion.

[jdray]

Parts of the Florida panhandle will fall into the upper single digits and low teens with this event. VERY IMPRESSIVE!

Laurel Hill, FL. near the AL border North of Crestview is being forecast at 7ºf for Friday am. Crestview, about 20 miles South of that is expecting 12ºf and Niceville, where my Mom lives about 15 miles South of that is expecting is expecting 15ºf. I do have to say that I have seen the edges of Pensacola Bay freeze a couple of times in my life though, so it isn't unprecedented, just very rare. Last time that I know about was during Christmas vacation when my kids were still in their single digits so that would have been about 20 years ago.

Christmas of 1989 is forever remembered by most Floridians.
Snow in Jacksonville and North Florida. (48+ hours under freezing) plus teen temps.

1985 was colder, by 1989 had the snow and ice.

[fwbbreeze]

we are gearing up for the cold here in the western Florida Panhandle. VB mentioned Laurel Hill and Crestview getting in on the cold. Its not to often that the possibility of single digits cold exists in my area but this seems to be one of those times. I am on the coast in the south end of Okaloosa county and looking at about 19 or 20 as the low Friday night. THat is plenty cold for me

[Shockwave]

They have now forecasted my area to reach below zero (-3ºF) for Thursday night into Friday morning. This will be the first time it has the potential to reach below zero here since 2003 or earlier I believe.

[Brent]

single digits anywhere in FL is extremely impressive. Poor Brent is happy with his single digits in AL. lol 7 in FL is much better than 7 AL in my opinion.

LOL, the last time we had single digits was 2003 and if we get to 8 we'll be lower than we were then. The weather sucks here.

I'm pretty surprised that parts of the FL Panhandle will be as cold as us.

[RL3AO]

It warmed up to 0 today, but is at -11 and falling now.

[amawea]

It was 44 when I got home at 5 p.m. The front was just coming thru. Wind kicked up out of the N.W. and the temps are now at 23 at 9:40. I have no doubt that they will hit the single digits before dawn here on the Arkansas/Mo. border.

Tommorrow night is supposed to be around 0.

Just wish we could get some snow. I like snow!

[RL3AO]

-17 already. How low will it go?

[RL3AO]

Red Wing Municipal Airport
Lat: 44.59 Lon: -92.49 Elev: 784
Last Update on Jan 15, 12:55 am CST

Fair

-26°F
(-32°C)

[CajunMama]

When it's that cold does everything shutdown? No work? No school?

[Dionne]

33F at sunrise. Calm and clear. Another beautiful winter day in the deep south.

[Extremeweatherguy]

If Chicago stays below 0F today, then it will be the first time since February 1996 that it has done so. Current forecast: -2F.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Rochelle, IL fell to -37F this morning!

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KRPJ.html

If this number stands, then it will be cold enough to break the ALL-TIME record low for the state of Illinois set back in 1999 (-36F)!

[jinftl]

Doesn't seem like that will happen now....forecasts have been upped some...teens may still be possible in some interior parts of the panhandle...but not in areas that don't see such temps maybe once every year or so.

From NWS Melbourne this morning....

MAJOR CHANGE IN FCST IS THAT MODELS ARE QUITE GUNG-HO ON INCREASING UPR
RH/DIVG THIS AFTN THRU TONIGHT. BY 18Z...THE H40-H20 LYR IS PROGGED
TO BE NEARLY SATURATED AND REMAIN SO THRU SUNRISE FRI. H30-H20 DIVG
WILL INCREASE AND BECOME FAIRLY STOUT OVHD FROM 00Z-12Z. THIS
PORTENDS THICKENING HIGH CLOUDS BY THIS AFTN...AND REMAINING OVHD
THROUGH TONIGHT. AND WHILE THIS WILL FILTER SUNSHINE AND LOWER MAXES
BY A COUPLE DEGREES UNDER WHAT THEY WOULD OTHERWISE BE...THICKEST
CLOUDS ARE PROGGED BY TONIGHT...WHICH SHOULD KEEP MINS SEVERAL
DEGREES ABOVE WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY FCST.

SO WHILE TEMPS WILL BE COOL TO COLD TODAY/TONIGHT ....THIS MAKES A WDSPRD FREEZE ACROSS THE
FAR NORTH (of Melbourne forecast area-jintftl)SEEM MUCH LESS LKLY THAN IT DID EARLIER THIS WEEK. MIN
TEMP GUIDANCE HAS COME UP ABOUT A FULL CAT ACROSS THE AREA...AND THE
GRIDS/ZFP WILL FOLLOW SUIT. AM HESITANT TO PULL THE FREEZE WATCH
JUST YET...BUT BASED ON CURRENT SAT IMAGERY...WILL NOT BE SURPRISED
TO SEE IT PULLED LATER THIS AFTN.



First part of cold snap in florida has been something of a bust...temps last night stayed 5-10 deg warmer in many places than forecast. Miami's low of 59 was the normal low for the date. Forecast for tonight been upped 10 deg from 50 to 60 in Miami. May see low 50's over the weekend.

single digits anywhere in FL is extremely impressive. Poor Brent is happy with his single digits in AL. lol 7 in FL is much better than 7 AL in my opinion.

LOL, the last time we had single digits was 2003 and if we get to 8 we'll be lower than we were then. The weather sucks here.

I'm pretty surprised that parts of the FL Panhandle will be as cold as us.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Rochelle, IL fell to -37F this morning!

http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KRPJ.html

If this number stands, then it will be cold enough to break the ALL-TIME record low for the state of Illinois set back in 1999 (-36F)!

If that doesn't prove global warming, er, a, climate change, nothing does.