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Well mlfreeman hindsight always is 20/20. I posted that back on Thursday prior to Florence making landfall. Obviously everyone in North Florida since Friday has been feeling the very hot temps from the subsidence typically seen on the back side of tropical cyclones. I definitely knew and anticipated the heat and sinking air was coming in for sure for Northeast Florida area.

Oh well, you get my point right since you are being technical about the matter.

we have endured a uniquely hideous week in the bay area WRT to excessive heat/humidity. A few days back Tampa registered a record high of 95 after a morning low of 81. that's got to be one of the highest averages of the summer. Not to be outdone it looks like this mornings low was 84. combined with upper 70's dewpoints the lowest heat index I could find overnight was 94. It is like putting your head in the dishwasher. And here we are at noon at Tampa the temp is already 91 with a 78 degree dewpoint which yields a heat index of 106. I can not remember heat and humidity this persistently obnoxious this late in the season. it is really incredible. I must say it is amazing pool and beach weather. I'm headed to the beach later this afternoon to make the most of it..

psyclone wrote:we have endured a uniquely hideous week in the bay area WRT to excessive heat/humidity. A few days back Tampa registered a record high of 95 after a morning low of 81. that's got to be one of the highest averages of the summer. Not to be outdone it looks like this mornings low was 84. combined with upper 70's dewpoints the lowest heat index I could find overnight was 94. It is like putting your head in the dishwasher. And here we are at noon at Tampa the temp is already 91 with a 78 degree dewpoint which yields a heat index of 106. I can not remember heat and humidity this persistently obnoxious this late in the season. it is really incredible. I must say it is amazing pool and beach weather. I'm headed to the beach later this afternoon to make the most of it..

Good luck at the beach. Scattered red tide here and there.

I was at honeymoon yesterday and there were a few dead fish but not bad. nothing like 2005 which featured huge fishkills for months on end

At Gainesville yesterday, the high was 97 and the low 79. The 97 ties with 6/24 for the hottest high of the season and the 79 is THE warmest low of the season to date! Ah, the glories (or lack thereof lol) of being on the dry and subsident SW side of Flo!

Meanwhile, today’s preliminary low was way up at 81! If they don’t get rain today, they might not get back below 79-81 by midnight thus giving them at least as warm a low today as the 79 of yesterday.

Aside: Atlanta has highs of 95 the last 2 days, which are the hottest of the year to date!

northjaxpro wrote::uarrow: Well mlfreeman hindsight always is 20/20. I posted that back on Thursday prior to Florence making landfall. Obviously everyone in North Florida since Friday has been feeling the very hot temps from the subsidence typically seen on the back side of tropical cyclones. I definitely knew and anticipated the heat and sinking air was coming in for sure for Northeast Florida area.

Oh well, you get my point right since you are being technical about the matter.

Yeah, I do.
I was just venting about it being so hot.
I think it was hotter than any projection I saw.

On the flip side, the brief dry-out doesn't hurt (for my neighborhood anyway - the retention pond has been running at a high level all summer long).

September is the worst month weather wise in FL.

psyclone wrote:we have endured a uniquely hideous week in the bay area WRT to excessive heat/humidity. A few days back Tampa registered a record high of 95 after a morning low of 81. that's got to be one of the highest averages of the summer. Not to be outdone it looks like this mornings low was 84. combined with upper 70's dewpoints the lowest heat index I could find overnight was 94. It is like putting your head in the dishwasher. And here we are at noon at Tampa the temp is already 91 with a 78 degree dewpoint which yields a heat index of 106. I can not remember heat and humidity this persistently obnoxious this late in the season. it is really incredible. I must say it is amazing pool and beach weather. I'm headed to the beach later this afternoon to make the most of it..

I've spent plenty of days in Tampa during the summer, and to me it always feels even hotter than Miami. All that Gulf humidity combined with my feeling that the west coast sea breeze typically just isn't as strong as the east coast sea breeze, so it never seems to have a lot of cooling power, at least not to me.

So funny. I came in to whine. Where are the cool fronts? The ones that drop the oppressive heat. I knew why we heated up when it was just starting to get comfortable ish before Florence. Still going to whine. When will the weather drop back into the upper 80s without the oppressive humidity we have on top of us now. I am a native. I know that it ebbs and flows until the first front in October. However, I can usually feel the slightest change in September. I felt it before Florence. She needs to leave and take her nonsense with her. I want this anvil off my state. Whine over.

Still in the middle of a rather strong storm down here in Mandarin.
2.7 inches so far since 7 PM and counting.

Hail too...found some of the pieces of ice on the garage floor (garage door was cracked open for kitty to hide from the weather).

Flat and maybe dime sized but they melted too quickly for me to get back into the house and get a coin / phone to measure and record.

It seemed to form basically overhead and doesn't want to move, though at one point it was clear to the NE and raining to the SE...then the clouds filled back in.

psyclone wrote::uarrow: I was at honeymoon yesterday and there were a few dead fish but not bad. nothing like 2005 which featured huge fishkills for months on end

Just curious because I've never been to the island. Are there typically a lot of shells or sharks teeth there?

Couldn't agree more with the rest of you. Just miserably hot and humid. Mid to late October couldn't get here fast enough! Just watch. With our luck, we'll have another tropical cyclone "close approach" from the Southeast and then suddenly re-curve while tracking north..... just to torture the state with a bit more westerly flow for a few days in Oct?!

Why is it still so dry right now in Miami (in terms of rainfall, not humidity)? I haven't seen a drop of anything measurable in almost 2 weeks.

Re: Florida Weather
Post by Patrick99 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:28 pm

Why is it still so dry right now in Miami (in terms of rainfall, not humidity)? I haven't seen a drop of anything measurable in almost 2 weeks.


That is an awful long time without rain!

chaser1 wrote:

psyclone wrote::uarrow: I was at honeymoon yesterday and there were a few dead fish but not bad. nothing like 2005 which featured huge fishkills for months on end

Just curious because I've never been to the island. Are there typically a lot of shells or sharks teeth there?

Lots of shells and sand dollars. there's alot of fill rock (remains of 1960's development aspirations) which is a pain but overall it's pretty nice considering the otherwise heavily built up/urban setting of the area.

We finally had a big thunderstorm last night which broke the heat and helped us end the streak of 80+ degree lows. KTPA did register a high of 96 yesterday which broke the record for the date and tied the September all time high. We're in the running for the warmest September. If reached it would join February as an all time warmest month in 2018. I can't help but notice the CPC 8-14 day outlook has been depicting a big cool down across the east with cool anomalies slowly bleeding south and eastward in subsequent outlooks. If that trend remains intact Fall could be here rather quickly as we turn the calendar into October.

Patrick99 wrote:Why is it still so dry right now in Miami (in terms of rainfall, not humidity)? I haven't seen a drop of anything measurable in almost 2 weeks.

Strong, persistent easterly flow has confined convection to the west coast of the peninsula, owing to the relative weakness of the west-coast sea breeze.

Here in Boca Raton we been very dry no afternoon storms.We only had two rain events Alberto in May and Gordon on Labor Day. No rain to speak of between,zero tropical waves. If it does rain it just dirties up the windshield because it lasts 10 seconds.Another disappointment as far as rain goes down here.

I'm getting SO heat punch-drunk that I'm strongly considering whatever the cheapest and fastest excursion out of here just to get a brief taste of more fall-like evening 60's and daytime max in the 70's for a day or two! So far it looks like an 8 hour trip (each way) and $255 in gas will get me to the mountains of N. Georgia, but add lodging and food for a couple days..... and I suppose i'll stay put and endure

Until the ongoing +NAO period ends this could be delayed into November. Still with the oncoming expected El Niño we are expected to have at least a normal to slightly cooler than average winter according to the CPC.

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