First Day of Spring (and Tropical Cyclone Formation)

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First Day of Spring (and Tropical Cyclone Formation)

#1 Postby Frank2 » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:37 am

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)...
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Re: First Day of Spring

#2 Postby hurricanetrack » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:33 am

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.
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#3 Postby Cyclenall » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:33 am

I hope Spring starts here soon, this winter has be up and down the whole time.
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Re: First Day of Spring

#4 Postby Blown Away » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:34 am

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.
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Re: First Day of Spring

#5 Postby MGC » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:08 pm

Year round spring-summer. What a delightfull thought......MGC
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Re: First Day of Spring

#6 Postby jinftl » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:38 pm

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!!!

MGC wrote:Year round spring-summer. What a delightfull thought......MGC
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Re: First Day of Spring

#7 Postby oyster_reef » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:38 pm

very spring like here too... maybe rain on the parades tomorrow
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Re: First Day of Spring

#8 Postby Jinkers » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:48 pm

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.
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Re: First Day of Spring

#9 Postby MiamiensisWx » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:18 pm

This thread is completely unrelated to tropical activity - it should be moved to Winter Weather or USA Weather...
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#10 Postby Cyclone1 » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:21 pm

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

(Now it's related. :wink: )
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Re: First Day of Spring

#11 Postby boca » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:20 am

Here in S Fl we had 24 hours of winter back around Jan 3rd.
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Re: First Day of Spring

#12 Postby wxman57 » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:46 am

boca wrote: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?
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Re: First Day of Spring

#13 Postby Frank2 » Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:06 pm

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...
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#14 Postby petet » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:07 pm

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 :cold: :cry:
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* :roll:
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#15 Postby JonathanBelles » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:58 pm

Late Spring Temps are about over for a short time. I'd say conditions right now are fall like.
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Re: First Day of Spring (and Tropical Cyclone Formation)

#16 Postby Frank2 » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:00 pm

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)...
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Re: First Day of Spring (and Tropical Cyclone Formation)

#17 Postby Frank2 » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:36 am

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...
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