SNOW IN SOUTH FLORIDA!!!

[redrumloa]

Not many news reports yet and no good linkable ones. Here is the closest one.

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=11796169

Flurries near Palm Beach. A miniature snowman in Orlando. And below freezing temperatures across the entire state. It was one of the chilliest days in Florida history.

Arctic air pushed into the eastern United States Friday into Saturday, bringing with it record cold temperatures. The last time Florida saw weather like this was back in 1977, almost 33 years ago to the day.

Highs in Orlando and Daytona only reached 40 degrees. A new record for both cities.

People were scrambling to help animals caught in the cold. Sub-tropical lizards, snakes, and sea turtles needed help surviving the chilly temperatures. NASA scientists teamed up with conservation workers to help cold-stunned sea turtles. When water temperatures drop below 60 degrees, which happened in the shallow lagoons near Kennedy Space Center this morning, the sea turtles become lethargic and possibly succumb to the chill.

So far there is reports of significant snow in Orlando, which is closer to Central Florida. News also reported snow flurries in parts of Palm Beach county(The county just north of me), Naples (south-west coast) and Oakland Park (which is a few miles from me). The only time on record it snowed in South Florida was 1977. I am hopeful it will snow here tonight or tomorrow morning! I will charge the camcorder battery just in case!

 

[redrumloa]

Ok, here is a better report.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southfl ... 17659.html

Saturday may have been the worst of it. There were snow flurries spotted in several parts of the state, including at the Walt Disney World Half Marathon. In South Florida, temperatures were expected to fall just below freezing overnight before creeping into the low 50s on Sunday.

Joel Rothfuss, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami, said there were unconfirmed reports of snow or ice pellets in Oakland Park and at Kendall's Town and Country Mall.

``I can't say that it didn't happen,'' said Rothfuss, who asked callers to submit photos as proof.

So they are saying it is unconfirmed for Oakland Park... The temperature is killing off even native wildlife.

Farther north, more than 160 cold-stunned turtles were found floating Thursday and Friday in the Mosquito Lagoon near Titusville.

About 40 of them have been rescued and are recovering at the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine in a heated swimming pool.

Fish haven't been so lucky. On Thursday, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office dive team was searching the 54-degree waters next to the Edgewater Lodge on Long Key, where Paul Merhige was arrested last week in connection with the Thanksgiving Day killing of four relatives.

They didn't find any weapons. But the dive-team members saw plenty of dead juvenile barracudas, grunts, pinfish and parrotfish.

 

[Robert]

Still unusually cold here too.

The local rivers have frozen over, melted, refrozen, etc. That rarely happens here.
This is the first proper winter we've had for years.

I used to moan about not having weather to go snowboarding but no such complaints this year.

 

[smithy]

After nearly 5 weeks, today it finally got above 0 degrees and the snow is melting here.

I'm quite excited - I've not seen any green grass this year.

 

[Glaucus]

They're predicting unusually warm weather for us here; above zero for Tuesday and Wednesday. That's almost unheard of for us here in Winterpeg, usually the best we can hope for is -10C and that's usually accompanied with a lot of snow fall. Weird weather.

 

[redrumloa]

They're predicting unusually warm weather for us here; above zero for Tuesday and Wednesday. That's almost unheard of for us here in Winterpeg, usually the best we can hope for is -10C and that's usually accompanied with a lot of snow fall. Weird weather.

Wait to see what actually happens. Here they revise the forecast every day. They will say somethng like "tonight will be the coldest night of the year and we will see a warming trend starting tomorrow". That's well and good, but the say the same thing every day and there is no warming trend! They just keep quietly revising their forecast every day.

 

[Glaucus]

I'll keep you posted. :mrgreen:

 

[redrumloa]

I'll keep you posted. :mrgreen:

Cool, I am curious. You guys can keep sending the cold weather down here to Florida! I am loving it!

Free air conditioning!

 

[redrumloa]

The media finally has to admit records are being broken.

Record cold sweeps South Florida

The National Weather Service reported 36 degrees at the Miami airport, beating an 82-year-old record of 37 degrees. It dipped to 42 degrees in Key West, one degree off the record and the second-coldest reading since 1873.

``I even had ice on my car this morning, which was an unbelievable sight for Miami,'' said Dan Gregoria, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

It was 14 degrees Monday morning in Tallahassee, breaking the record of 15 set in 1982. Record-tying lows of 29 were observed in Orlando, and Tampa's 25-degree weather beat its old record of 27.

South Florida is usually around 68 degrees this time of year.

So a meteorologist with the National Weather Service had ice on his windshield, but the official low is still 36? I still find this a bit of a stretch.

Cold temperatures aren't entirely unheard of in Florida, but it's unusual for them to linger this long. Gregoria said Monday was the 10th consecutive day of lows under 50 degrees in South Florida, just shy of a record of 13 days set in 1940.

Even Miami's high was under 50 on Sunday, a mark observed just four times previously.

Now even these numbers don't seem to fit reality, especially with the propoganda machine now claiming no snow hit south of Orlando (on the east coast). Even the coments to this article seem to claim it was colder.

What are you guys talking about. Where I lived temperatures went down to 32 degrees at 5:30 am, I had so much ice on the car that I to put hot water on the windshield so that I could see. I LIVE IN MIAMI CLOSE TO THE MICOSSUKEE CASINO ON 147 AVENUE AND 9TH STREET.

It was below 32 at my house in eastern kendall area. Used my old windshield ice scrapper. It was fun for my children and reminded me why I moved here.

Skullcaps were flying off the shelves, Robert Samuels? Really? Anyway, I recorded a low temp on the hood of my car of 25* with my digital thermometer. I have a picture of it showing 26*. 5" above the roof of the car it was as low as 28*. The car was covered with frost, as were all the cars on our street - photos available. Outside the house window it was 33*. I live just west of US 27 off of Johnson St - that's far west Pembroke PInes. This is the second night this winter that we've had frost or frozen condensation.

Here is a (poor video) on Youtube, possibly showing flurries in Oakland Park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO249_XKP4c

Hopefully some better videos will show up.

 

[redrumloa]

They did it again! "Just one more brutally cold night, we promise this time!"

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/natio ... om=hp_news

The worst of this cold spell is just about over.

One more brutally cold night is in store for the eastern Gulf coast and Florida tonight with overnight lows mainly in the 20s from Mississippi to central Florida. Southern Florida should have lows tonight in the 30s to lower 40s with the middle 40s to lower 50s expected in the Florida Keys.

Warmer air should begin moving into Texas, the Gulf coast, and Florida Tuesday with afternoon highs in the 50s and 60s.

Another cold air mass briefly swipes through the Southeast and northern parts of the Deep South Tuesday and Tuesday night delaying the warm up there for a day.

Every single day they say this! Eventually they will be right, but when?? :roflmao:

 

[Glaucus]

I'll keep you posted. :mrgreen:

Cool, I am curious. You guys can keep sending the cold weather down here to Florida! I am loving it!

Well, you can track the temp and forecast here: Winnipeg Current Weather. As it turns out, they have revised it: Now they're predicting +5C for tomorrow. And +3 for Wednesday and +5 for Saturday. The long term forecast predicts more above freezing temps (with a touch of rain :shock next week as well. Boy am I glad I washed my car today (that's sarcasm, if you lived in a place like this you'd know that tons of snow on the ground + mild temps means very sloppy driving conditions. ie. my car will be very dirty tomorrow).

Free air conditioning!

Or lower heating costs for me. I can't complain. :mrgreen: It certainly does look like we're trading weather patterns here, which I'm kinda OK with. But then Winnipeg isn't likely to soon become ocean sea bed either, I'd be a little concerned if I were you.

 

[faethor]

Us just to the south of you will be enjoying this heat wave too.

And just in time for me as we just survived a 55F high temp for the house. I get to go furnance shopping. Luckily the warm temps should help keep the furnance limping while the new one gets installed. UGH!

Minnesota is predicted to have low 30s for highs, thawing, and rain in January. Ugly weather. Rain at this time is bad it freezes up on the cold roads and surfaces. A cool snap though will set us in a ice wonderland for months.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

It certainly does look like we're trading weather patterns here, which I'm kinda OK with. But then Winnipeg isn't likely to soon become ocean sea bed either, I'd be a little concerned if I were you.

Currently Reykjavík in Iceland is 4C and forecast to be above freezing for the rest of the week.

Southern Greenland is also above freezing.

 

[Glaucus]

Time to make sense of all this: Why the US and much of Europe are shivering in the cold

Those of us shivering through extended stretches of subfreezing temperatures might be forgiven for getting a bit impatient for the onset of more significant global warming. And, if you're reading Ars, chances are good that this describes you, as the US and Europe have been blanketed in an unusual chill. Ironically, as these inhabited parts shiver, the atmospheric system that's causing it, the Arctic Oscillation, has covered Greenland and the Arctic Ocean with air that's equally as extreme, but in the warm direction.

 

[faethor]

Minnesota is experiencing a heat wave. Historically the coldest week of the year will produce a thaw. We may hit 40s tomorrow. The Arctic air has moved north. This is bringing us warm air at 3K-5K feet. This 50-60 degree air is pushing down warming us up. This hits and melts snow. It also insulates the cold air from going higher and keeps the moisture close to the ground. What ends up happening is lots of fog as the cold produced by the snow hits warm air. (Not too much different than Red's window) It's beautiful as it produces lots of hoar frost in the morning. Unfortunately, the same effect puts the hoar frost all over the roads making driving a bit trickier.

 

[Glaucus]

Well I feel jipped. The highest I saw today was -6C, about 11C lower then what they predicted. It's still unusually warm for this time of year of course. And they're still predicting above 0C temps for tomorrow. Looking at the weather maps it looks like the system they were expecting to move in with warmer air has slowed and won't hit us until evening. I'll keep ya posted if we see 0C temps tomorrow.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Just in case you do see any of our snow, could you send it back, please.

Actually, I personally don't care but some folks around here are getting nervous. we have the winter Olympics here in just under a month and here is a picture of the North Shore Mountains.[attachment=1:2v3k3pxv]cypress_wide.JPG[/attachment:2v3k3pxv]

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Hmm. That's the place we'll be having the snowboarding, parallel slalom and ski-cross. Hope the athletes have wheels on their gear because it's starting to look a little brown up there and it's still raining.

What the Olympic committee will be hoping for is a cold snap and a big dump of the white stuff. Of course, if that happens Vancouver will be paralyzed. This city can't handle snow at the best of times, never mind while under high security lock down.

*edit*
Actually this is a picture of Grouse mountain but the Olympics are being held on Cypress which is the next ski hill west (about 7km) but the problem there is the same. They have closed the hill to the public earlier than they planned to preserve what base they have. Current conditions report that it's -1 up the hill and snowing though apparently not much. It's a beautiful hill when it's got good snow and the sky clears though. As much as I hate the Vancouver Association of Nazis Olympic Committee and couldn't wish failure on a more deserving group, it would still be a shame if the hill craps out and can't perform when the cameras are here to see it.

 

[Glaucus]

As long as the hockey ice rinks are unaffected, I'll b fine with that. I'm guessing you don't have tix for any events (weren't they kinda impossible to get?) but I wouldn't mind watching some Olympic ice hockey.

It was -2C today.

 

[faethor]

Yesterday we hit 28. Part of the problem is the warm air is melting the snow and not letting the cold air resultant out. We've been living in fog for the last 3 days. Today is predicted to be 35F/ 1.5C. It's already 22F so I think it'll get there. The 10-day forecast has all of our highs at or above freezing. Another shot at 40F/5C in a week.

 

[Glaucus]

The 10-day forecast has all of our highs at or above freezing.

Same here, it'll be hovering around the melting/freezing point for some time. This anecdotal evidence is totally inline with that air temp anomaly chart I posted a few days back.