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Arctic April

This is a weather forum so it is my duty to report significant weather events.

Hot April continues in South Florida, especially at my location between Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood airport and interior Hollywood North Perry Airport (where the terrorists supposedly trained). Yesterday was the coldest day since April 3rd, and it was 1 degree above normal. Today we almost broke the April high minimum again, but the temperature dropped to 79.3. Tonight might be a repeat. The April High minimum temperature is 80 degrees. The high temperature for April is 97, and we got to 94 and 95 a few times.

Super warm waters off the Atlantic Coastline, and lakes are super warm. The lake outside my condo this afternoon was 86 degrees, and the drought has lowered the water level by 2 feet. I can see 2 foot fish breathing coming up to breath for air about five feet from the lake shore. The gulf and immediate Florida coast are very warm for this time a year, which is likely aiding to the tornado threat in the Southeast.

I have lived in Florida for 7 years now, and am pretty impressed by the conditions this year. It's hot. I walk my dog in the morning and night, and I'm sweating like I do in nighttime June temperatures. It's a very auspicous start to the hurricane season
 
Looking forward to next week being dominated by sub 50 F dewpoints even down here. This along with below to near normal temps most of the time means comfy walking most of next week. Get out and enjoy!
 
looks like the switch to the warm pattern looks legit around day 7-10, tropical forcing/MJO headed towards phase 4-6 favors a SER, which is appearing
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Maybe so, but you have been noting for weeks now a return to warmth based on the models, but so far has not occurred. Unlike winter, the warmth keeps getting pushed back instead of forward! I for one will enjoy the cooler weather while we have it, no doubt the heat will get here eventually.
 
Maybe so, but you have been noting for weeks now a return to warmth based on the models, but so far has not occurred. Unlike winter, the warmth keeps getting pushed back instead of forward! I for one will enjoy the cooler weather while we have it, no doubt the heat will get here eventually.

Yeah I have definitely been burned lol the past few weeks, at this point I’m just ready to push this pattern out as it favors severe, only way we get rid of this “severe” pattern is a heat dome, but the difference with this vs the last times I’ve said it is that tropical forcing looks favorable for warmth vs the last times I was saying it, they were in phase 7-8, not to mention the CPC is favoring severe in the plains due to the pattern change E3A1BF14-DEC5-4C7B-A2D8-97B42EAC0FF6.png
 
The constant troughs digging in the east allowing quick transient warm sector setups and severe gots to go
I agree with you, we need the heat. Tired of this severe weather every week. Don't get me wrong I love extreme weather to a excitment level without any damage or injuries or worse but we do need a break.
 
Maybe so, but you have been noting for weeks now a return to warmth based on the models, but so far has not occurred. Unlike winter, the warmth keeps getting pushed back instead of forward! I for one will enjoy the cooler weather while we have it, no doubt the heat will get here eventually.
The warmth is coming but models and model biases likely pushed the window too early. I agree about the cooler weather though other than the frost it has been nice. I do think though the SE ridge makes some appearance in the next 10days gets pushed back then returns in full force by 5/10 or so
 
Another crisp refreshing day. What a April it has been. One of the most refreshing stretches I can remember in some time.
I agree. We’ve had our windows open almost constantly since the shutdown began. Now that my maters are in the ground I want some warmth but this has been a Godsend.
 
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