Florida Weather

[jinftl]

They are getting blasted out by Sawgrass Mills right now...east of the Turnpike, I think this storm may not bring much rain. I hear thunder by me in the distance (i am east of 95), but only a few drops wetting the pavement (maybe a Trace of rain since 4pm). Still see blue skies to my east. The storm out by Sawgrass Mills is moving north of my area now.

Finally. Big thunderstorms are blowing up over the Everglades and pushing NE...into metro SE Florida. West Coast of Florida is quite dry especially north of Sarasota.....this finally looks like the first day the rainy season has started here.

I am crossing my fingers those big thunderstorms will impact the metro West Palm Beach area....

[psyclone]

looks like a westerly flow through the balance of the week so any convection should converge on the east side of the state. i'm expecting a dry week in my region.

[NDG]

I was in St Augustine today, the smoke was very bothering.
Looks like all of NE FL has a major fire within a 35 miles radius.

[Patrick99]

My area, once again, got no rain other than a brief spit. I'm beginning to think I live in a rain rip-off zone.

[gatorcane]

I ended up with hardly any rain, just enough to wet the pavement

I cannot remember the last time I saw heavy rains here.

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

Pingpong ball size hail was reported in Weston. The AFD today mentions that they think the fires contributed significantly to the severity of the storms by providing a condensation nuclei. So here we have humanity directly affecting the weather. Media is blaming ATV riders for sparking the blaze out by Tamiami trail, which in turn a week later (after burning nearly 60k acres) caused good size hail where there may not have been much of a storm without.

Today should be a typical rainy season day out on the east coast with a weak westerly flow, a weakness aloft, and decent moisture.

In Tamarac we had a good hour of medium-heavy rain. Not a crazy tropical downpour but very wet and nearly continuous thunder.

Here is some video of the hail posted on another board

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_BLod0 ... r_embedded

[AdamFirst]

Severe weather blowing up across Palm Beach County. It's currently blasting through gatorcane's neck of the woods.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 651 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF LION COUNTRY SAFARI...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE QUICKLY DEVELOPING
IN THE LION COUNTRY SAFARI AREA AND WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE.

Had a small cell move through my neck of the woods about 15 minutes ago.

[Hurricaneman]

Only 3 weeks worth of water left in palm beach county, thats real bad

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_p ... h%E2%80%99

[gatorcane]

Severe weather blowing up across Palm Beach County. It's currently blasting through gatorcane's neck of the woods.

Nope. What happened today is UNBELIEVABLE. Had a huge (severe) cell develop about 15 miles or so SW of where I live and it began moving NE (you can see the huge cell in the radar shots above). Severe T-storm warning up for my area and everything. Looked like a slam dunk we were going to get that 1-2 inches of tropical downpours this time (finally). But the huge storm literally went poof (almost instananeously looking at the radar loops) about 2-3 miles from where I live. The debris clouds moved overhead and I ended up with just enough rain to wet the pavement again. The grass looks even more dead now believe it or not

[jdray]

Getting pounded pretty decently up here in NE Florida. Small hail and heavy lightning.

We need the rain, so its a welcome relief. JIA has picked up about 1/2 an inch so far this evening. Nothing major, but it cleans the smoke from the fires a little at least. And sure beats 100F temps that we were getting to.

[JonathanBelles]

A State of Emergency has been declared for the fire season:
http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/20 ... al-Florida

Premature in my opinion.

[JonathanBelles]

Newest blog post on Dry Florida: http://jonathanbelles.wordpress.com/

The State of Emergency document is attatched to the upper left side of the home page.

[psyclone]

there's actually some showers and thunderstorms working their way southeast along the coast north of the tampa bay area. i can see some lightning off to the north so there is some hope for some rain overnight.

[thetruesms]

A State of Emergency has been declared for the fire season:
http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/20 ... al-Florida

Premature in my opinion.

What makes you say that?

[gatorcane]

POPS have been increased to 50% across much of SE Florida today ---- I am counting on some good rains today as this may be the last chance before the convection starts to shift inland and to the west coast by end-of-week as easterly flow kicks in.

[NDG]

Nice thunderstorm in the northern half of Orlando tonight, vivid cloud to ground lightening for a good while. My garden is dancing with joy tonight.

[psyclone]

dewpoints have reached obnoxious levels here even by florida standards. mid to upper 70's with temps well into the 80's at 11pm. it just gets stupidly hot and humid when there's no convection to cool things off.

[psdstu]

POPS have been increased to 50% across much of SE Florida today ---- I am counting on some good rains today as this may be the last chance before the convection starts to shift inland and to the west coast by end-of-week as easterly flow kicks in.

I hope you get some rain.........and if/when you get any please send some up our way............104 today and no rain in sight anytime soon.

[gatorcane]

POPS have been increased to 50% across much of SE Florida today ---- I am counting on some good rains today as this may be the last chance before the convection starts to shift inland and to the west coast by end-of-week as easterly flow kicks in.

I hope you get some rain.........and if/when you get any please send some up our way............104 today and no rain in sight anytime soon.

No ended up with just enough rain to wet the pavement again. I am beginning to think there is some kind of shield this year around where I live where deep convection just goes poof before reaching my area...sooner or later, it's got to rain hard one would think....especially as we get deeper into the rainy season where just about everybody gets good rain so it is hard to avoid it.

[NDG]

dewpoints have reached obnoxious levels here even by florida standards. mid to upper 70's with temps well into the 80's at 11pm. it just gets stupidly hot and humid when there's no convection to cool things off.

Looks like many spots all along the immediate GOM coast never got out of the low 80s last night, with high dewpoints it meant that you guys had a heat index of no lower than the upper 80s all night long, thanks to the west winds, ouch.