First Day of Spring (and Tropical Cyclone Formation)

[Frank2]

It seems that Spring arrived in South Florida this morning - the air had that "first day of Spring" smell to it...

The Miami NWSFO has mentioned in the past that South Florida's "Spring" does seem to begin on or around February 15, so, perhaps this is true...

We'll see what our warm Winter will mean for the upcoming season (just under 5 months away)...

[hurricanetrack]

Hope so. No need for winter- a waste of time.

Perhaps with the global warming or climate change or what ever it is called now, spring will come earlier and earlier. Fine by me.

[Cyclenall]

I hope Spring starts here soon, this winter has be up and down the whole time.

[Blown Away]

Seems like May-June to me. Did we even have a winter. The most I did for winter was break out the windbreaker about 8 or 9 times.

[MGC]

Year round spring-summer. What a delightfull thought......MGC

[jinftl]

Been in south fla for 12 years...never for a second feel anything but blessed and lucky to live here in the winter...perpetual spring fever!!!

Year round spring-summer. What a delightfull thought......MGC

[oyster_reef]

very spring like here too... maybe rain on the parades tomorrow

[Jinkers]

I've lived down here in south florida my whole life, would like to see snow once-lol. But this winter sure seemed hot, we only had that one real cold day right after new years day, it's in the 80s here at my house now.

[MiamiensisWx]

This thread is completely unrelated to tropical activity - it should be moved to Winter Weather or USA Weather...

[Cyclone1]

It must of been springlike in February 1952, S Fla got a tropical storm on Groundhog day.

(Now it's related. )

[boca]

Here in S Fl we had 24 hours of winter back around Jan 3rd.

[wxman57]

Here in S Fl we had 24 hours of winter back around Jan 3rd.

Isn't that why people like to live in south Florida?

[Frank2]

Incidentially, I was once told by someone at the HRD (or NHC, I can't remember) that there is a small statistical maximum of tropical storm activity during the first week of February (in the western Caribbean), so, apparently this period has passed quietly...

Just something to think about...

[petet]

Wow congrats,i love springs.Here in Bulgaria it is winter now,the spring comes in 22 April. But last two winters (2007/2006) are very strange,no snow,temps - +20* somedays.We had only one huge winter storm
But i prefer that winter than last cuz we didnt have a snow whole year and in the summer - the highiest temperatures ever - up +45*

[JonathanBelles]

Late Spring Temps are about over for a short time. I'd say conditions right now are fall like.

[Frank2]

As it turns out, perhaps the "Spring" I felt the other day was warm air advection that helped to spawn the severe weather outbreak 700 miles to our northwest, just 24 hours later...

Still, our temps are above average today - the cable technician came by this morning, and, was sweating after working outside for 30 minutes or so...

Hello, petet (a long-distance hello)...

[Frank2]

Big rumble of thunder here just now - there was a lot of Springtime-type vigor in the pre-frontal squall lines that swept across Florida over the past 18 hours...

Rare in South Florida were the supercell-type thunderstorms seen late last night, and, the Peninsula was under a tornado watch for an unusually long period of time, from yesterday afternoon until this morning...

As far as tropical related, hard to say...