Florida Weather

tropicana · #4121 Postby **tropicana** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:15 am

Selected rainfall totals for 24 hrs ending at 8am this morning:-

Ft Lauderdale Executive Airport 4.29"
Ft Lauderdale Airport 1.37" (24hr total for Mar 21)**new record**
Hollywood 3.37"
Pembroke Pines 1.09"
Pompano Beach 1.02"
Boynton Beach 0.74"
Ft Pierce 0.58"
Vero Beach 0.44"
Marathon Airport 0.43"
St Lucie County Airport 0.36"
Tamiami Airport 0.26"
West Palm Beach 0.10"
Miami Int'l Airport 0.05"

-justin-

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4122 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:55 pm

Some of those totals are more than I have had this year.
This year I think I have had around 2 inches; The official
site has had about 3 in Saint Pete

#4123 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:20 pm

Interesting that we are already getting rain chances every couple of days because of sea breeze showers. 30% for tomorrow.

#4124 Postby **psyclone** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:54 pm

Tampa bay radar shows 2 smoke plumes: one from the fire near venice in southern sarasota county and another from a new fire in eastern hernando county. meanwhile a few showers have actually made it into eastern polk county.

#4125 Postby **gatorcane** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:08 pm

yep I see those smoke plumes and also the widely scattered showers moving briskly with a low-level east windflow. Right now they are holding together pretty well as they move through Central Polk County headed for Tampa Bay.

But -- its likely they will poof just before reaching the metro areas of Tampa unfortunately. The airmass is quite dry along the West Central Coast of FL. A shortwave enters the picture tomorrow though increasing rain chances according to NWS. I will stay conservative and only suggest a 20% chance for all of West Central FL.

#4126 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:03 pm

The fire in Hernando County have caused voluntary evacuations, and it has grown to over 600 acres and growing...only 10% contained.

#4127 Postby **psyclone** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:23 pm

Smoke has just invaded my neighborhood. it is pretty strong. perhaps this is from the hernando county fire? not sure. earlier that smoke was passing well to my north. at any rate it smells like a big campfire out there.

#4128 Postby **O Town** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:24 am

We have gotten some decent rain fall between yesterday afternoon and this morning. Seems like from Bevard county to here has been seeing a good bit. Great for the fires that are east of me closing down 95 all the time.

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4129 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:34 am

Some light rain moving into Tampa Bay...over South Hillsborough right now

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4130 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:38 am

Heavy Rain Moved through!!!! :ggreen:

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4131 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:53 pm

Heavier rains near Tampa and Ruskin

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4132 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:07 pm

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4133 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:55 pm

Heavy Downpour and Ominous Clouds

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4134 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:03 pm

The heaviest rain missed us to the south last week and will stay over
north florida this week...it will likely take a significant tropical
storm in June to get rain- or the rainy season in late June.

jinftl · #4135 Postby **jinftl** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:14 pm

KBDI continues to show increased values over most of the state during the past few days...

U.S. Monitor Drought update for florida....we had a good week for rain in fort lauderdale...rest of the state didn't fare as well.

Heavy rain fell in southeastern Florida, mainly in and near some of the east coast cities, but largely bypassed the remainder of the parched peninsula. March 17-21 rainfall totaled 2.81 inches in Ft. Lauderdale, with nearby amounts locally ranging from 6 to 10 inches. However, Ft. Lauderdale recently completed its driest winter on record, with a December-February rainfall total of just 0.39 inch (5% of normal). Nevertheless, some severe drought (D2) was removed from the hardest-hit areas of southeastern Florida, replaced by abnormal dryness and moderate drought (D0 and D1).

Elsewhere, there was some modest expansion of severe drought (D2) deeper into interior southern Florida, including all of Lake Okeechobee. The level of Lake Okeechobee has been falling steadily since a few weeks after the August 2008 passage of Tropical Storm Fay, and the lake’s average surface elevation on March 24 stood at 12.32 feet (about 2 feet below the 1965-2007 average for the date).

#4136 Postby **HURAKAN** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:58 pm

jinftl · #4137 Postby **jinftl** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:27 pm

if we could get that mass of rain over the I-4 corridor! Things are looking up for at least scattered rain by the second half of the weekend in Tampa and Orlando.

HURAKAN wrote:

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #4138 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:00 am

Tampa Bay Area- Risk of Severe Weather:

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=1
DURING SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY RAIN CHANCES WILL BE ON THE
INCREASE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AS THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT SWEEPS
SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION. INCREASING MOISTURE/INSTABILITY ALONG AND
AHEAD OF THE FRONT COMBINED WITH INCREASING LARGE SCALE ASCENT FROM STRONG
JET DYNAMICS ALOFT WILL LIKELY SUPPORT A SQUALL LINE WITH SOME STRONG
TO SEVERE STORMS A POSSIBILITY AS INCREASING LOW/MID LEVEL WIND FIELDS
(45-50 KNOT LOW LEVEL JET) PROVIDES AMPLE DEEP LAYER SHEAR FOR STORM
ROTATION/SUPERCELLS WITH DAMAGING WINDS. ALTHOUGH MODEL SOUNDING WIND
PROFILES APPEAR FAIRLY UNIDIRECTIONAL CAN NOT RULE OUT THE RISK OF SPIN
UPS OR TORNADOES AS WELL AND WILL HIT ON ALL OF THIS IN THE HWO LATER
THIS MORNING. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THREAT SOME BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.p ... er+Outlook
...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO APPROACH AND MOVE THROUGH WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE FRONT WILL BE
PRECEDED BY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT AND
EARLY ON SUNDAY...THEN DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION ON MONDAY
IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ALONG
AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT ALONG WITH INCREASING WINDS IN THE LOWER
AND MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE MAY SUPPORT SOME STRONG TO SEVERE
STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND OR TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING
STRIKES WILL WILL BE POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS OF WEST CENTRAL
AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES
YOUR LOCATION MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY

Winds could gust to near tropical storm force along the coast:
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Windy, with a south wind between 21 and 26 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 71. South wind between 11 and 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Windy, with a south wind 15 to 18 mph increasing to between 23 and 26 mph. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... &map.y=145

#4139 Postby **HURAKAN** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:10 am

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