A Little Break

Posted by Brent Cameron

We're catching a break with quiet weather conditions, now.  Will it last throughout the rest of the week?  no!    Our weather maps clearly show a disturbance to our southeast which should impact our local weather by Thursday night or Friday.  It's a tropical wave with plenty of associated moisture. 

Upper atmosphere charts show a quick transition from "dry" to a very moist environment.  As the moisture levels increase, we'll be in a position to receive rounds of rain with thunderstorms.   Usually, when such thick moisture is over us (especially this time of the year) we get heavy downpours with the concern for localized street flooding.  Stay tuned. 

For the time being, drier-than-normal air is in place.  Further, we're even getting a beneficial breeze off of the Atlantic Ocean.   With mostly dry air around (and limited instability) rain chances will remain very low through the middle of the week.  However, by Friday, our dry air wedge will be pushed out... so a steady supply of tropical moisture will enter the region.   

In the tropics, we're following the "last bit of life" from Ernesto.  It made its initial landfall near Chetumal (already) and has emerged over the Bay of Campeche.   Over the next 24 hours, it will make a second landfall... along the central Mexico coastline, this time.  Also on the tropical weather map is a vigorous tropical wave that's impacting the Caribbean islands.  If the wave can hold together, the northern extent of it COULD impact the Bahamas and south Florida by Friday.   Meanwhile, we'll be keeping watch on a possible disturbance forming in the central Atlantic.  For now, the Hurricane Center is giving it a "medium" development chance.

Brent Cameron

Nice, for Now

Posted by Brent Cameron

So here we are... 1-week into our south Florida rainy season and 1-week away from the official start the Hurricane Season (for the Atlantic).   It's a holiday weekend and (not surprisingly) it's often fraught with stormy conditions here.  Instead, though, we're catching a big break!  Drier air has returned and even the humidity has "backed down" for the time being.

Memorial day Weekend

Posted by Phil Ferro

Memorial Day Weekend   Memorial Day weekend has become the unofficial start of summer, but its true meaning is to remember the service men and women who gave their lives for our nation. So as you are enjoying the freedoms they died for.... say a little prayer for them this Monday.   

White Hot Long Weekend

Posted by Vivian Gonzalez

A white hot day is underway... Today we will have a very similar situation with high temperatures reaching the low 90s. However, it will feel hotter because the humidity levels are high. Record heat is possible in Miami. The forecast is calling for a high of 92 degrees, old record is 94 set back in 1989.

Hurricane Season Outlook

Posted by Phil Ferro

2013 NHC Forecast   And so it begins. With the release of NOAA's seasonal outlook, I officially ramp up the Tropical Blog for 2013. This is what NOAA says we can expect for the 6-month season, which gets underway June 1.