Florida Weather

[HURAKAN]

0.61 inches of rain today and a lightning strike next to my house. What a day!

[thetruesms]

No rainy season here yet.. We have not gotten the deep moisture to hang around yet..heck the lows were in the 60's last week. Highs in the 90's is another gauge it's still kinda dry..relatively speaking..We have had some rains but not the usual daily inland seabreeze collision patten. No hurries the grass is green and we are past the fire season dangers...well if the rainy season does actually kick in.

I wouldn't say that quite yet, especially not with the freeze-killed fuels present in the north. It's been quite a quiet season so far, though, so I'm hopeful we can make it through without anything huge to ruin that

[gatorcane]

Looks like the rainy season has officially started according to NWS Miami:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/mfl/news ... on2010.pdf

Curiously, however, I don't see a hotlink on the main page of the NWS site....had to dig for this.

[Patrick99]

I don't know how the rain avoided my area today, but it did. Saw the storm coming on the radar....but it kinda fell apart and re-consolidated to the WSW of me. I hate when that happens.

[Sanibel]

I think 90L pulled some cool dry weather in on us. Nice and spring-like, BRIGHT sun and cool breezes.

[Patrick99]

Rain seemed to avoid my area again beyond a little sprinkle. Nice storms all around for much of the day; I was watching the radar. They were south, north, east.....everywhere but here.

[thetruesms]

Things were looking pretty bad for my softball game last night. Luckily, everything fell apart and we escaped with only some stray sprinkles off and on.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Heavy Rain in Northeast Saint Petersburg (I came home yesterday from USF Tampa).

[thetruesms]

For anyone who really wants to see some awesome storm initation off of outflow boundary interaction, check out the Tallahassee radar now. We've got some heavy rain at the state EOC now that popped up almost in the span of a single volume scan

[thetruesms]

Man, I always miss the fun stuff! got a text from my girlfriend - 1.5" hail at our apartment, and I'm stuck here at work

[gatorcane]

Interesting discussion from NWS Key West with mention of "bizarre" pattern:


snippet:

.DISCUSSION...
LATEST OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NOAA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
LABORATORY PROFILER ON CUDJOE KEY REVEAL LIGHT NORTHWEST WINDS
PERSISTING IN THE LOWEST 5000 FEET...WITH INCREASING WESTERLIES
ABOVE. THE FLORIDA KEYS LIE WITHIN AN UNUSUALLY LARGE REGION OF
WEAK...PRIMARILY WESTERLY LOW-LEVEL WINDS COVERING MUCH OF THE
WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA AND SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO. THIS BIZARRE
PATTERN SEEMS TO BE THE RESULT OF THE COMPLICATED UPPER SPLIT FLOW
REGIME CURRENTLY IN PLACE ACROSS NORTH AMERICA...WITH A ZONAL
SUBTROPICAL BRANCH OF THE JET STREAM SEPARATED FROM A HIGHLY
AMPLIFIED NORTHERN BRANCH BY A SERIES OF CUT-OFF VORTICES OF VARYING
DEPTHS AND INTENSITIES.

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=1

[Jinkers]

We had a pretty good storm here in Pembroke Pines Florida yesturday, finally one that didn't go around me, I love thunderstorms...

[Patrick99]

Yeah, yesterday was the first day in a while my area of Dade got a decent soaking. It was just kind of a slow-moving lazy thunderstorm. Some lightning, moderately heavy rain, nothing spectacular. Hope we get another today.

[psyclone]

numerous storms out there today...looks very july like and the west coast, which has been largely exempt thus far, could get bombed later today as the east coast seabreeze and outflow collides with the west coast seabreeze just inland and pushes westward. the rainy season has gotten an early start this year.

[Patrick99]

Not sure why NWS Miami bumped the POPS down to 20%.......looks like popcorn storms aren't having much problem getting going, per the radar.

[dizzyfish]

Finally - rain sweet rain!

.85"

[psyclone]

southeast winds are stronger today than yesterday. that should pin the west coast seabreeze closer to the coast vs yesterday and there should be some big storms when that collision takes place. lots of showers are streaming onto the east coast this morning...always an indicator of vigorous thunderstorm development later on the western side of the peninsula. IMO it looks like a very active day ahead.

[Patrick99]

There wasn't even anything in the morning today, not even close. And now everything is way inland. At least the inland stuff is blocking out the sun......I can't take summer days when there's nothing but sun all day long.

[psyclone]

well we didn't get anything in my neighborhood either. i thought we had a good chance but the seabreeze punched deeper inland than i thought it would. i was happy though..i took advantage of the nice weather and went out to the beach for an evening swim... my first gulf soak this year. the water is already quite warm, probably mid 80's here.

[NDG]

Wow! I got nickel size hail tonight.
Third night in a row that I have gotten dumped on near sunset.