Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Quoting kmanislander:


On the one hand it may but on the other..... well perhaps.

Quoting TampaSpin:




The very dry air is what is preventing it from forming!!!!!

Quoting daddyjames:


Actually, it was 1977. I was there. Remeber walking out of the house thinking "What is this white stuff falling out of the sky?"

From Wikipedia:
January 17, 1977: The pressure gradient between a strong ridge over the Mississippi Valley and a Nor'easter over Atlantic Canada sends very cold temperatures southward into the state. Areas around Pensacola are the first to receive the snow. Then the rest of The Panhandle. Followed by record accumulations for The Nature Coast, the I-4 corridor (both Orlando and Tampa receive light accumulations of about 1-2" with a few isolated spots reportedly receiving 3-6"), and finally South Florida. By early on January 19, West Palm Beach reported snow for the first time on record, with snow flurries reaching as far south as Homestead. The snow causes little impact as it was of the dry variety, though the accompanying cold air results in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage (Orlando tied the 1899 record of over six consecutive nights well-below freezing). On January 20, the Miami Herald reports the event as the front page story, with a headline of a size usually reserved for the declaration of war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snow_events_ in_Florida#cite_note-almanac-11

Quoting pottery:

I have been saying that for days.....

Quoting GTcooliebai:
Thanks for your fine explanation on shear & what each numerical value inside the yellow shapes represents, along with the tan color streamlines in the background.

Quoting scott39:
ex93L not developing before now is not a good thing, unless it runs itself into CA as rain.

Quoting GTcooliebai:
That would've been quite the site, wish I was alive then, we almost had snow last year.

Quoting scott39:
ex93L not developing before now is not a good thing, unless it runs itself into CA as rain.

Quoting TampaSpin:



Hey Pot......that makes at least 2 of us correct.......LOL.....been on Vacation since August 1st and just got back Friday....glad things have been quite for most in the Tropical Regions thus far.

Quoting pottery:

I have been saying that for days.....

Quoting scott39:
If it does develope by 75W, do you see it being pulled N into the GOM? TIA

Quoting daddyjames:



It was. I was in the first grade at the time. We went to school and immediately allowed outside for recess to try to catch the showflakes on our tongues. If I remeber correctly portions of Miami actaully had accumulations of ~1 inch on the cars. Of course anything that hit the ground melted immediately.

Quoting weatherjr:
Our EX-Invest 93 finally POOF. What will be next? (for eastern most the caribbean)

Quoting ShenValleyFlyFish:
No you're wrong! The chronalflaug adveconium heliologica vorticon motion will mitigate for that.

Quoting GTcooliebai:

Like this :)

Quoting GTcooliebai:

Like this :)

Quoting scott39:
Hey...Thats Billy Joel!

Quoting angiest:
As promised, photos from Lake Somerville earlier today.  The lake is at or below 50% capacity.

Quoting blsealevel:


welcome; but i got that off their site most folks dont read the instruction manuel :)

Quoting TampaSpin:


Nope Rod Stewart with his hair dyed!

Quoting GTcooliebai:

Like this :)

Quoting Stormchaser2007:
Week 2

Quoting P451:


Not enough to salvage x93L before 70W.

The Caribbean is a dead zone and I don't think you see a rapid change in that (next 72 hours if you will).

Quoting WhoDat1:


Is that a dinosaur in the background..

Quoting P451:


Not enough to salvage x93L before 70W.

The Caribbean is a dead zone and I don't think you see a rapid change in that (next 72 hours if you will).

Quoting daddyjames:


Complete with the cool hairdos ;D

Quoting scott39:
So you think ex93L is dead dead dead!!??

Quoting xcool:



Tropical Cyclone Forecast System
(provides probabilitity of tropical cyclone occurence associated with
convectively coupled equatorial waves, ENSO, and the MJO)

Quoting MississippiWx:


It's embedded in a large moisture field, though. Dry air isn't going to kill it enough for it totally dissipate. The biggest issue is whether it can obtain a decent low level center.

Quoting klew136:

The iguanas falling out of trees happened two years also, in the Keys, we didn't go over 55 for a period of at least four weeks, and the lows were in the 40's and no one has heat in their house. We weren't upset over the iguanas because they are not suppose to live here, but we were upset over the fish kill due to cold temps on the surface and no oxygen to the fish.

Quoting P451:


Not enough to salvage x93L before 70W.

The Caribbean is a dead zone and I don't think you see a rapid change in that (next 72 hours if you will).

Quoting P451:


That rapid increase in steering layer forward motion isn't helping either. The wave axis was sheared far ahead of the area of convection once it felt the influence of the upward speed of the steering layer.