Florida Weather

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Thank you! I love shelf clouds they look so awesome.
Warm and Windy!
It is windy now in Saint Petersburg.

[JonathanBelles]

Is that band of "rain" off the SW coast actually rain?

[HURAKAN]

Drizzle fell in FIU.

[JonathanBelles]

overshot the high and the winds today...
This Afternoon: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. South wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Currents:

Fair
85°F
(29°C)
Humidity: 55 %
Wind Speed: S 17 G 30 MPH
Barometer: 30.02" (1016.3 mb)
Dewpoint: 67°F (19°C)
Heat Index: 88°F (31°C)
Visibility: 10.00 mi.

[HURAKAN]

They should be noticing that their forecast is daily lower to the real temperature.

[dizzyfish]

I think they busted on the cloud cover today too. I am seeing more clouds up here today than I have seen all week!

[feederband]

Small sun shower acouple minutes ago...Looks like they are lineing up from the south like they did yesterday...

[Cyclone1]

Raining in Lakeland again.

I like this summerish weather.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Hot today high 86 with heat index pushing 90. Windy
with gusts to 30 mph. Sunny all day almost no clouds-
clouds are well east of here.

[feederband]

Raining in Lakeland again.

I like this summerish weather.

Yes it is and yes I do...

[flwxwatcher]

Had about 15 to 20 minutes of fairly steady rain today and it looks like the week-end promises even more. This is a nice bonus for a month the is one of the driest in Florida.

[NDG]

Yeah, this April has been so far very nice & active compared to the last 2 Aprils, which were beyond boring dry.

[dizzyfish]

Sounds like the storms will miss me again (see bold). Dang!

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
417 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008

FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-052300-
LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK-
MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE-
417 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL AND
EASTERN LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...DEEP MOISTURE WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA TODAY
AS SOUTHWEST FLOW INCREASES AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THIS MOISTURE WILL
COMBINE WITH STRONG SURFACE HEATING AND A NEARBY TROUGH TO CREATE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE AREA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL
EXIST OVER EASTERN INTERIOR LOCATIONS FROM SUMTER SOUTHWARD THROUGH DESOTO
COUNTY AND AREAS TO THE EAST. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS
40 MPH. THE MAJORITY OF STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. CONVECTION WILL FAVOR THE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING HOURS.

WIND AND WAVES IMPACT...SOUTH WINDS OF 15 TO 20 KNOTS WILL IMPACT
ALL WATERS TODAY. LOCAL GUSTS TO 25 OR MORE KNOTS WILL BE POSSIBLE
IN AREAS CLOSE TO THE COAST AND IN TAMPA BAY DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND EARLY EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL BE CHOPPY...AND SMALL CRAFT
SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID WEEK AS
A FRONT REMAINS STALLED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED.
PLEASE PHONE IN REPORTS OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE
NWS OFFICE IN RUSKIN USING THE SPOTTER-LINE.

What's up with that spotter statement? Phone in reports? That's kind of a given...

[JonathanBelles]

000
SXUS72 KMFL 051306
RERMIA

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
0905 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008

..RECORD HIGHEST MIN TEMPERATURE WAS TIED AT MIAMI:

THE RECORD HIGHEST MIN TEMPERATURE OF 77 DEGREES WAS TIED AT MIAMI
YESTERDAY. THE OLD RECORD WAS SET IN 1973.

..RECORD HIGHEST MIN TEMPERATURE WAS TIED AT MIAMI BEACH:

THE RECORD HIGHEST MIN TEMPERATURE OF 76 DEGREES WAS TIED AT MIAMI
BEACH YESTERDAY. THE OLD RECORD WAS SET IN 1949.


$$

[Ed Mahmoud]

Maybe summer in Florida...

- but is is cloudy and chilly in SE Texas, on April 5th. Old man Winter isn't relaxing his icy grip on the Lone Star State without a fight.

56ºF (13ºC) cool degrees at IAH

[jinftl]

What a difference a week makes....water temps are starting to warm quite a bit

[Ed Mahmoud]

Unscientific observation, although I think I've seen it mentioned somewhere, (maybe Bastardi), where it is warm and dry in the Spring, partly through feedback, signals the location of the mean summer ridge. Places in the Rio Grande Valley in March got less than a tenth of an inch of rain. So, (going back to my equally unscientic fixation on 1950 as the analog year), any Gulf storms getting near the latitude of Texas will keep chugging West, into Mexico.


And if the ridge is centered over Texas, well, the mean trough has to be somewhere East of here, maybe far enough East to recurve most storms (like 1950), but allow one or two to sneak up from the Caribbean into Florida. (Like 1950).


I eagerly await JB's 2008 Hurricane landfall forecast, I wanna see if he agrees with my uneducated reasoning.

[HURAKAN]

Interesting day ahead for Florida!!!

[jinftl]

Looking like Sunday/Sunday night will be the wettest timeframe down here in South Florida...NWS Miami continues to drop the chance for precip today...down to 20% today and tonight, up to 60% Sunday and Sunday night.

Interesting day ahead for Florida!!!

[JonathanBelles]

STATUS REPORT #2 ON WW 168

VALID 051830Z - 051940Z

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 20 ESE MAI
TO 20 NE VLD TO 35 ESE VDI TO 30 ESE AGS.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 568

..SMITH..04/05/08

ATTN...WFO...JAX...TAE...CHS...CAE...FFC...

&&

STATUS REPORT FOR WS 168

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

FLC001-003-005-007-013-019-023-029-031-037-039-041-045-047-065-
067-073-077-079-089-121-123-125-129-051940-

FL
. FLORIDA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ALACHUA BAKER BAY
BRADFORD CALHOUN CLAY
COLUMBIA DIXIE DUVAL
FRANKLIN GADSDEN GILCHRIST
GULF HAMILTON JEFFERSON
LAFAYETTE LEON LIBERTY
MADISON NASSAU SUWANNEE
TAYLOR UNION WAKULLA
$$


GAC025-027-029-039-049-051-065-101-103-127-173-179-183-185-191-
229-251-275-299-305-051940-

GA
. GEORGIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

BRANTLEY BROOKS BRYAN
CAMDEN CHARLTON CHATHAM
CLINCH ECHOLS EFFINGHAM
GLYNN LANIER LIBERTY
LONG LOWNDES MCINTOSH
PIERCE SCREVEN THOMAS
WARE WAYNE
$$


SCC005-013-015-019-029-035-049-053-051940-

SC
. SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ALLENDALE BEAUFORT BERKELEY
CHARLESTON COLLETON DORCHESTER
HAMPTON JASPER
$$


AMZ330-350-352-354-450-452-GMZ730-750-755-765-051940-

CW

. ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS INCLUDED ARE

CHARLESTON HARBOR

COASTAL WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20
NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM
...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY

COASTAL WATERS FROM ALTAMAHA SOUND TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL OUT 20
NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST. AUGUSTINE FL OUT 20
NM

APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE
RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM OCHLOCKONEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO
20 NM

COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM

$$
THE WATCH STATUS MESSAGE IS FOR GUIDANCE PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE
REFER TO WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION STATEMENTS FOR OFFICIAL
INFORMATION ON COUNTIES...INDEPENDENT CITIES AND MARINE ZONES
CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCHES.
$$