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boca wrote:With the NAO continuing to remain positive I think cold fronts are over for us in South Florida and temps this week in the upper 80s it’s now summer in February. Welcome to the new norm.
psyclone wrote:NDG wrote:psyclone wrote:Yeah it was a unique winter with a good bit of cool but no cold weather. Agree about the part of "no winter" in south florida. I think that's the whole point. It is a different world and it always has been. If you're looking for something different the only answer is a U-haul pointed north. On the other hand..i do wonder about our stretch of warm winters. we've only had one freeze here in the tampa bay area in the past 9 years. It's almost like South florida is now Cuba, central florida is now south florida and north florida is now central florida. As more and more of the tampa bay area is moated off by UHI thanks to net migration and development...freeze climo may be altered on a permanent basis..
You wouldn't believe the mango trees now in the Orlando area and Royal Palm Trees now have no problems growing here.
Royal palms are surprisingly tough. Much more so than coconut palms and even foxtails. We've got quite a few good sized ones around here and they did fine during the 2010 arctic blast while other more sensitive tropicals were severely damaged or worse. I am a fan of tropicals in general so i'm loving our stretch of good luck. Moss draped oaks with smaller tropicals tucked safely under the canopy is like a scoop of Key West and Tallahassee. It's an awesome combo
NDG wrote:psyclone wrote:Yeah it was a unique winter with a good bit of cool but no cold weather. Agree about the part of "no winter" in south florida. I think that's the whole point. It is a different world and it always has been. If you're looking for something different the only answer is a U-haul pointed north. On the other hand..i do wonder about our stretch of warm winters. we've only had one freeze here in the tampa bay area in the past 9 years. It's almost like South florida is now Cuba, central florida is now south florida and north florida is now central florida. As more and more of the tampa bay area is moated off by UHI thanks to net migration and development...freeze climo may be altered on a permanent basis..
You wouldn't believe the mango trees now in the Orlando area and Royal Palm Trees now have no problems growing here.
AdamFirst wrote:Melbourne and Fort Pierce reached 89 degrees today, breaking the previous records set in 2008. Vero Beach tied its all time record at 88 degrees.
I hate every second of it.
NDG wrote:Just 10 days away from Meteorological Spring, which most times is on time here in the FL Peninsula. Looking at the 10 day range, winter is over for us. Actually it was over for us 2 weeks ago![]()
Here in Orlando this winter has been averaging a whopping 2.6 degrees above average despite the cool and rainy second half of January.
Patrick99 wrote:NDG wrote:psyclone wrote:Yeah it was a unique winter with a good bit of cool but no cold weather. Agree about the part of "no winter" in south florida. I think that's the whole point. It is a different world and it always has been. If you're looking for something different the only answer is a U-haul pointed north. On the other hand..i do wonder about our stretch of warm winters. we've only had one freeze here in the tampa bay area in the past 9 years. It's almost like South florida is now Cuba, central florida is now south florida and north florida is now central florida. As more and more of the tampa bay area is moated off by UHI thanks to net migration and development...freeze climo may be altered on a permanent basis..
You wouldn't believe the mango trees now in the Orlando area and Royal Palm Trees now have no problems growing here.
That is interesting. I actually have noticed certain trees growing in Orlando and Tampa that I think of more as belonging in South Florida, extreme South Florida at that.
What I find crazy is not just the lack of "cold" in South Florida, it's the increasingly transient nature of the "cool" we do get. It's like a front passes, then a few hours later, the wind is already trying to swing around to the E-NE. I seem to remember this happening more often, a front would pass, we'd get a couple cool/cold nights, then the wind would swing to the NE for a couple days, and we'd be warmer but still relatively cool. Now, a front passes and we're literally back to a hot, humid tropical regime with SE winds within a couple days.
Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:Hottest day of the year so far. Tampa already 84 with a heat index of 88 and we still have 3 hours of heating to go.
HurricaneBelle wrote:Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:Hottest day of the year so far. Tampa already 84 with a heat index of 88 and we still have 3 hours of heating to go.
Winds shifted to SSW off the water so it's dropped to 81 at 4PM
HurricaneBelle wrote:Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:Hottest day of the year so far. Tampa already 84 with a heat index of 88 and we still have 3 hours of heating to go.
Winds shifted to SSW off the water so it's dropped to 81 at 4PM
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