Florida Weather

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Yes indeed! From upper 80s today to low 60s mid week to back to upper
80s next weekend!

[JonathanBelles]

What are the record low maximums for this week?

[jinftl]

Lower than I would have guessed...it may not happen often, but apparently a cold snap in april is not unheard of...

Per Nws Tampa Bay...
This colder air along with the clouds will keep daytime temperatures on Tuesday 10 to as much as 20 degrees below normal, with highs mostly in the 60s, except lower 70s over Southwest Florida. These temperatures will be close to the record low maximums for the date at some locations across West Central and Southwest Florida.

Record Low Maximum:
April 7
Tampa (airport) - 60 (forecast for 4/7 is 65)
Fort Myers - 66 (forecast 4/7 is 71)

Overnight lows Tuesday night will also be well below normal with temperatures falling into the 30s across the Nature Coast and 40s elsewhere away from the coast. A few of the normally colder inland locations across the Nature Coast could even drop to near freezing. These cold temperatures could approach record levels in a few spots across West Central and Southwest Florida

Record Low Minimum:
April 8
Tampa (airport) - 40 (forecast is 42)
Fort Myers - 39 (forecast is 45)

During Wednesday night the high will move across the Florida peninsula and out into the Western Atlantic Ocean. This will allow winds to become light under mainly clear skies setting us up for good radiational cooling. Temperatures Wednesday night into Thursday morning are expected to fall into the upper 30s to lower 40s across much of the Nature Coast with middle to upper 40s stretching southward into inland portions of Southwest Florida. These low temperatures should remain above the record lows for April 9


http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/tbw/pdf/ ... sAhead.pdf

What are the record low maximums for this week?

[tropicana]

An interesting record:- Key West FL failed to fall below 77F on Sun Apr 5, tying a record set in 1982 as the warmest low temperature recorded on this date.

90F was recorded at West Kendall FL and WInter Haven FL on Sunday, but Miami fell shy of that mark by just 1 degree..and the 3rd time this month that the temp reached 89F.

-justin-

[Sanibel]

Not sure if our 76.6* low last night was accurate - but that is warm as a low for this time. Humid.

[jinftl]

Impressive day in south florida florida weather...first impressive heat with new record highs set in the following cities:

Miami - 92 (old record 91)
Fort Lauderdale - 93 (old record 91)
West Palm Beach - 93 (old record 89).

Impressive winds also continue to be found ahead of the front....Stuart had sustained winds over tropical storm force!

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
423 PM EDT MON APR 6 2009

...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM EDT ALL AREAS...

.UPDATE...WINDS WILL CONTINUE QUITE STRONG LOCALLY THROUGH EARLY
THIS EVENING WITH THE APPROACH OF THE COLD FRONT NOW LOCATED OVER
CENTRAL FL. GRADIENT WINDS SUSTAINED AT NEAR 25 MPH WITH
PREVAILING GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING. SOME IMPRESSIVE NON-CONVECTIVE WINDS NOW OVER EAST
CENTRAL FL...WITH STUART NOW REPORTING SUSTAINED WINDS OF 43 MPH!
PBI NOW RECORDING GUSTS TO 38 MPH. SO AS THE FRONT
APPROACHES...VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SERVICE
AREA...SO ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY ALL AREAS UNTIL 8 PM EDT. UPDATES
ALREADY OUT.


Impressive cool down in order for the next few days, but no record lows expected to be set at this time however, according to NWS Miami:

MIN TEMPS WED MORNING COULD RANGE FROM AROUND 40
GLADES/HENDRY COUNTIES TO AROUND 50 OVER BOTH, EAST AND WEST COAST
METRO AREAS. STILL, NO RECORDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE EITHER TIED OR
BROKEN AT THIS TIME AS FORECAST TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO BE QUITE A
FEW DEGREES ABOVE THE MARKS.


Followed by an impressive (but not surprising given the time of year) warm-up before the end of the week:

NWS Forecast for: Miami FL
Issued by: National Weather Service Miami - South Florida
Last Update: 5:54 pm EDT Apr 6, 2009
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tonight: Isolated showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. Windy, with a west wind 22 to 25 mph decreasing to between 13 and 16 mph. Winds could gust as high as 43 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. .
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 74. Nor
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 61.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72.
Saturday: A 10 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a high near 86.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... TextType=1

[DESTRUCTION5]

...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM EDT ALL AREAS...

.UPDATE...WINDS WILL CONTINUE QUITE STRONG LOCALLY THROUGH EARLY
THIS EVENING WITH THE APPROACH OF THE COLD FRONT NOW LOCATED OVER
CENTRAL FL. GRADIENT WINDS SUSTAINED AT NEAR 25 MPH WITH
PREVAILING GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING. SOME IMPRESSIVE NON-CONVECTIVE WINDS NOW OVER EAST
CENTRAL FL...WITH STUART NOW REPORTING SUSTAINED WINDS OF 43 MPH!
PBI NOW RECORDING GUSTS TO 38 MPH. SO AS THE FRONT
APPROACHES...VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SERVICE
AREA...SO ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY ALL AREAS UNTIL 8 PM EDT. UPDATES
ALREADY OUT.

It has been quite a blow here in Stuart...

[HURAKAN]

[JonathanBelles]

Temps dont seem as cool as I had expected, but it is very breezy here.

[jinftl]

Makings of a beautiful day already...sunny and breezy with temps in the mid 60's as of last report. NWS Miami has nudged up forecast temps a bit tonight along the coast with most areas staying in the low to mid 50's.

I am also glad to be able to turn off the a/c for possibly the last time until next fall....

[HURAKAN]

I agree, beautiful day, sunny and cool.

[jinftl]

Two more refreshingly cool nights before dewpts and temps climb back up to more seasonal (to above normal) levels by late week and thereafter...little if any rain in the forecast either (no rain has fallen so far this month in Miami....may continue that trend into mid-month)

NWS Forecast for: Miami FL
Issued by: National Weather Service Miami - South Florida
Last Update: 5:07 pm EDT Apr 7, 2009
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 53.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 74.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 57.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 79.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 69.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72.
Saturday: A 10 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 87.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 71.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 73.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 86.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... TextType=1

[Sanibel]

61* last night.

65* today with 70* when the sun popped out, but back down to 65* when the clouds returned. Latest in the season I've ever seen it this cool.

[jinftl]

Believe it or not it has gotten much colder in april...tonight's record low in Fort Myers is 39 (set in 1950). Should stay at least 6-10 deg above that tonight.

Per NWS Tampa Bay, recent years have seen these temps (lowest temp recorded during the month of April in Fort Myers):
April 2008 - 51F
April 2007 - 49F
April 2006 - 56F
April 2005 - 51F

So temps in the 40's, although not forecast to set any records, are a bit colder than has been seen in recent Aprils.

61* last night.

65* today with 70* when the sun popped out, but back down to 65* when the clouds returned. Latest in the season I've ever seen it this cool.

[Sanibel]

58.7* last night.

70* now under bright sun and blue skies.

[jinftl]

Areas on Florida' west coast, along with South Florida and the Keys didn't drop quites as low last night as forecast (as of the last forecast issued Tuesday evening even)....

Lows Reported:

Tampa 50 (forecast - 46)
Sarasota 50 (forecast - 46)
Fort Myers 51 (forecast - 48)
Naples 56 (forecast - 50)
Key West 65 (forecast - 63)
West Palm Beach 47 (forecast - 45)
Fort Lauderdale 53 (forecast - 51)
Miami 54 (forecast - 51)

[jinftl]

A tale of two floridas...wet in the panhandle and dry on the peninsula. Lake O has now fallen to 11.93'...lowest reading of the year.

[HURAKAN]

The Sunshine State.

[jinftl]

Winds have turned to the se at both Miami and Fort Lauderdale as of noon....cool nights are now going to become a distant memory....quite possibly could be months before lows in the 50s are seen again. Forecast low tonight in Miami is 67. Only goes up from there in the forecast from Friday night into the weekend and next week.

[yzerfan]

Looks like some of the moisture that north Florida got last week is heading southward, though not in a particularly good sort of way. So far, I've heard reports of 50 homes in Hamilton County destroyed and 100 homes underwater in Madison County from floods.

http://www.floridadisaster.org/index.asp

All residents and travelers in north Florida should be on alert for rapidly changing conditions due to high water levels as a result of recent rains in the region. U.S. 90 at the Suwannee River (Madison and Suwannee County line) could be closed to all traffic as early as Thursday. If the water levels continue to rise, Interstate 10 (I-10) at the Suwannee River could also be closed as early as Friday.

“We are asking all residents and travelers in north and north-central Florida to pay close attention to possible road closures due to recent rainfall,” said Governor Charlie Crist. “We are ramping up state operations to respond to the affected counties and support local governments. We are also urging residents living near the river to pay close attention to media reports, review their disaster plans and be prepared for possible evacuation orders.” For real-time information on traffic conditions call 511 or visit http://www.FL511.com before getting on the road.

http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwat ... %20warning

FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1143 PM EDT WED APR 08 2009

...A DANGEROUS FLOOD IS FORECAST TO OCCUR ON THE SUWANEE...WITHLACOOCHEE...
AND ALAPAHA RIVERS INCLUDING THE SANTA FE...OVER NORTH FLORIDA...

...THIS MAJOR FLOOD EVENT COMPARES WITH AND MAY EXCEED THE 1973 AND ALL TIME
1948 RECORD FLOODS...

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN FLORIDA...

ALAPAHA RIVER FROM NEAR JENNINGS TO THE SUWANNEE RIVER AFFECTING HAMILTON COUNTY.
WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER AT PINETTA AFFECTING...MADISON AND HAMILTON COUNTIES.
SUWANNEE RIVER AT ELLAVILLE AFFECTING HAMILTON...MADISON AND SUWANNEE COUNTIES.
SUWANNEE RIVER NEAR DOWLING PARK AFFECTING LAFAYETTE...MADISON AND SUWANNEE
COUNTIES.
SUWANNEE RIVER AT BRANFORD AFFECTING LAFAYETTE AND SUWANNEE COUNTIES.
SANTA FE RIVER NEAR HOLLINGSWORTH BLUFF...THREE RIVERS ESTATES AND FORT WHITE.
SUWANNEE RIVER REACHES INCLUDING ROCK BLUFF...LURAVILLE AND OLD TOWN.
SUWANNEE RIVER NEAR WILCOX AFFECTING DIXIE AND LEVY COUNTIES.
SUWANNEE RIVER NEAR MANATEE SPRINGS AFFECTING DIXIE AND LEVY COUNTIES.
SUWANNEE RIVER AT FOWLERS BLUFF AFFECTING DIXIE AND LEVY COUNTIES.

...SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WARNINGS FROM THE WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IN JACKSONVILLE
FOR ALAPAHA RIVER AND SANTA FE RIVER REACHES...AND THE WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IN
RUSKIN FOR LEVY COUNTY CREEKS AND STREAMS AFFECTED BY THE LOWER SUWANNEE....

...A MASSIVE FLOOD IS MOVING DOWN RIVER FROM GEORGIA ON THE ALAPAHA AND
WITHLACOOCHEE RIVERS INTO THE SUWANNEE RIVER NEAR ELLAVILLE. RECENT HEAVY
RAINFALL IN GEORGIA HAS ALREADY GENERATED RECORD FLOODS AT PINETTA FLORIDA
ON THE WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER AS WELL AS AT STATENVILLE GEORGIA ON THE ALAPAHA
RIVER...

...THIS IS A HISTORIC FLOOD. ALL INTERESTS ON THESE RIVERS SHOULD BEGIN
TAKING ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. AT THESE LEVELS...THESE RIVERS
MAY UNEXPECTEDLY TAKE ROUTES OVERLAND CUTTING OFF ROADS AND COULD GENERATE LIFE
THREATENING FLOODING WITH LITTLE NOTICE...

...MAJOR INTERSTATE ROUTES SUCH AS I-10...US 90 AND MANY COUNTY AND STATE
ROADS COULD BE SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE CLOSURE IN THE COMING WEEK DUE TO
RISING WATERS...

...MOTORISTS PLANNING TRAVEL THROUGH THE SUWANNEE VALLEY ARE ENCOURAGED TO DIAL 511
OR VISIT http://WWW.FL511.COM FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION REGARDING ROAD CLOSURES AND DETOURS...

SAFETY MESSAGE...ALL PERSONS WITH INTEREST ALONG THE RIVER SHOULD MONITOR THE
LATEST FORECASTS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE
AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE CARS THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. IF YOU SEE FLOOD
WATERS...REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND AND DO NOT DROWN.

1143 PM EDT WED APR 08 2009

THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR
THE SUWANNEE RIVER AT ELLAVILLE.
* UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE...OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED.
* AT 10:00 PM WEDNESDAY THE STAGE WAS 61.9 FEET.
* MODERATE FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND MAJOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 54.0 FEET.
* FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE RISING TO NEAR 66.1 FEET BY SATURDAY
MORNING THEN BEGIN A SLOW FALL.
* IMPACT...AT 66.0 FEET...WATER WILL REACH THE ROADBED OF THE STATE ROAD 51
BRIDGE AT LURAVILLE.

&&
FLD OBSERVED 7AM EST / 8AM EDT FORECAST
LOCATION STG STG DAY TIME THU FRI SAT SUN MON

MIDDLE SUWANNEE RIVER
ELLAVILLE 54 61.9 WED 10 PM 63.2 65.1 66.1 65.7 64.7

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