Florida Weather

[HURAKAN]

Lake Okeechobee water level as of Aug 13, 2008

11.21 ft.

About 3 ft. below its historical average for this time of year.

[JonathanBelles]

NWS has raised the chances for development to 70% for tomorrow already with 50% starting tonight.

[dizzyfish]

I just checked the NWS for me tomorrow and it shows 80% with 50% starting tonight with rainfall amounts tomorrow between 1 and 2 inches.

[HURAKAN]

Very hot today.

High: 95.6ºF @ 2:21 PM

HI: 111ºF @ 1:27 PM

Winds have been between the SW and NW.

[JonathanBelles]

Wind has been out of the WSW with gusts out of the N and S at times, wind of 15mph with gusts to 25.

[jdray]

Had a nice line come in today around 3PM in Jacksonville.

2 cargo cranes blown over, many trees on houses.

I work in a skyscraper on the 16th floor downtown, we had some nice flexing of the windows (cat 3 rated) during the storm.

[HURAKAN]

Tornado impacts Hialeah, Florida. I have seen the images of a five-block radius damage and it looks like it was an F0 to F1.

[HURAKAN]

A funnel cloud was snapped hovering over Hialeah, Fla. as a line of severe thunderstorms moved through the area.

Buildings Damaged As Tornado Hits Miami
MIAMI (CBS) ― Widespread reports of damage poured in to police after severe thunderstorms hit Miami-Dade and Broward counties Thursday afternoon. Hialeah, Fla. police reported the tornado in the area around 2:40p.m. Thursday.

The Red Cross is in Hialeah to provide relief for the occupants of the location.

The National Weather Service in Miami had put the area was under a tornado warning at the time of the touchdown.

Police in Hialeah also reported two cars were flipped over by high winds on Palm avenue and 17th street.

A funnel cloud was captured by photographers, and video reportedly captured a tornado touchdown.

[JonathanBelles]

wow! Quite a tornado there. For it to flip cars, it wasnt an EF0.

[JonathanBelles]

Raining here again today. Seems like the Coast Guard is doing some training or something. They have been taking off from MacDill and heading just about due west the last couple of days.

[HURAKAN]

1.60 inches of rain with lots of lightning.

[JonathanBelles]

Waterspout in Tampa Bay right now.

[Cookiely]

Read Below "A Food Watch is in place" Their should be a food watch for Hillsborough County. I quit smoking and no food is safe.

000
FXUS62 KTBW 210723 CCA
AFDTBW

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
322 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2008

.SHORT TERM (TODAY - SATURDAY)...FAY IS OFFSHORE DAYTONA BEACH
WITH SOME AREAS OF RAIN WORKING INTO SUMTER...POLK...AND HIGHLANDS
COUNTIES. A COUPLE OF OTHER BANDS WERE MOVING DOWN THE COAST
BETWEEN SARASOTA AND FORT MYERS. FAY IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN A SLOW
WNW TRACK THIS MORNING...MOVING IT ACROSS NORTH FL AND THEN THE
FAR FL PANHANDLE LATE SAT. FOR DETAILS AND UPDATES ON FAY PLEASE
SEE ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IN MIAMI.

WITH FAY APPROACHING THE NE AND THEN N CWA..BRUSHING THE NORTH SIDE
OF LEVY...ANTICIPATE SOME SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTH.
A FOOD WATCH IS IN PLACE FOR THE 4 NORTHERN MOST COUNTIES WHICH
COULD SEE 4-8 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. ALTHOUGH THE
REST OF THE AREA COULD ALSO SEE SOME HEAVIER RAINFALL WITH ANY
BANDS ROTATING ACROSS SO POPS WILL RUN IN THE 50-70 PERCENT RANGE.

WINDS ON THE GULF ARE EXPECTED TO BE NO MORE THAN 25-30KT SO
WHILE THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE IN SURF...RIP CURRENTS AND TIDES
THERE IS NOT ANY MAJOR COASTAL FLOODING EXPECTED.

.LONG TERM (SAT NIGHT-WED)...OFFICIAL NHC TRACK OF FAY TO BE MOVING
WNW IN THE DEEP SOUTH EARLY IN THE PERIOD AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE
AREA. BUT DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE FL PENINSULA
WITH MODERATE SE FLOW EXPECTED TO KEEP CLOUD COVER AND HIGH END
SCATTERED RAIN CHANCES THRU SUNDAY.

FOR NEXT WEEK WE ARE EXPECTED TO KEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER THE AREA
WITH DEEP MOISTURE AND SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION EACH DAY. TEMPS
TO HOLD NEAR NORMAL OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL.

[JonathanBelles]

I went to sleep in December and woke up in August!

[dizzyfish]

Dang these storms today are setting up just to the south and coming right over us!

Now under a Flood Advisory for poor drainage areas - which fortunately we are NOT in.

[Cookiely]

000
FXUS62 KTBW 090035
AFDTBW

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
830 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008


.DISCUSSION...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVED OVER MOST OF
LEVY AND CHARLOTTE COUNTIES DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS ARE STILL MOVING FROM THE EAST AND
MAY BRING SOME BRIEF RAIN PERIODS THROUGH THE EVENING. THESE SHOWERS
ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE OVERALL CIRCULATION OF IKE...WHICH IS NOW
AFFECTING THE ISLAND OF CUBA.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR THE REST OF
THE EVENING...THEN BECOMING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS ON TUESDAY
AFTERNOON. ALSO...PRESSURE GRADIENTS WILL GRADUALLY BECOME TIGHTER
OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA AS IKE SWINGS TO OUR
SOUTH...BRINGING BREEZY CONDITIONS THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

WITH IKE MOVING INTO THE GULF WATERS LATE TUESDAY...SWELLS GENERATED
BY THE CYCLONE WILL REACH THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA WITH INCREASING
POTENTIAL FOR MINOR COASTAL FLOODING. THEREFORE...A COASTAL FLOOD
STATEMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND THROUGH
THURSDAY FOR ALL COASTAL COUNTIES.

[HURAKAN]

Lightning can be heard quite close from my house and it's quite dark outside.

[HURAKAN]

High pressure will remain draped over Florida through Wednesday with a slight shift southward with time as a weakening cold front approaches. The front will stall over northern Florida Tuesday with southwest flow increasing over the area. Afternoon sea breeze circulations will make good progress inland each day with convection favoring interior locations, except areas from Charlotte Harbor southward. Temperatures will remain above average Today, before becoming more average Tuesday and Wednesday.



A COLD FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA WITH THE BOUNDARY REMAINING IN PLACE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. LIGHT EASTERLY FLOW WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA AND ALLOW AN AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE TO DEVELOP EACH DAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN FORM ALONG THE SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY AND PUSH INLAND EACH AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL THROUGH SUNDAY.

Link: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/html/tbw/Graphicast.php

[HURAKAN]

Raining torrentially.

[HURAKAN]

1.36 inches of rain in my house. The rainfall was very localized.