Blustery weekend gives way to long-term warm-up
The chill that settled over the area on Sunday kept people off the bike trails and away from the sidewalk cafes. The beach was cold and blustery. The low Sunday morning was 45 at PBIA; and on the...
View ArticleCooler weather coming for first week of March; hurricane speculation begins
Just as South Florida’s warm meteorological winter ends, a cold front that will push temperatures below normal is on the horizon for the upcoming weekend. The first full week in March is expected to be...
View ArticleColorado State team sees quieter hurricane season ahead
Only nine named storms formed during the 2009 hurricane season. Could we be as lucky again? (Credit: Wikimedia Commons William Gray and Philip Klotzbach arrived at the National Hurricane Conference in...
View ArticleBritish hurricane forecasters see 30 percent drop in 2012 activity
April 21 will be the 9th anniversary of the only tropical storm to form in the Atlantic in the month of April. Tropical Storm Ana began as a sub-tropical storm on April 20 to the west of Bermuda. It...
View ArticleLatest pre-season hurricane forecast predicts 12 named storms in 2012
AccuWeather released its pre-season hurricane forecast Thursday, calling for 12 named storms, five hurricanes and two major hurricanes. This is slightly more aggressive than Colorado State University’s...
View ArticleForecasters see cool, stormy kick-off to 2012 rainy season
The 14-day outlook for South Floirida, thorugh May 19, is for wet and seasonally cool weather. (Credit: NOAA/ CPC) Stormy and cool is the forecast for the kickoff of the 2012 wet season in South...
View ArticleLa Nina officially over; forecasters predict afternoon storms through Thursday
The Climate Prediction Center sees chances of an El Nino increasing as we head into the fall and winter. (Credit: NOAA/ CPC) La Nina, the Pacific Ocean cool-water phenomenon that delivered two...
View ArticleU.S. ends warmest 12-month stretch on record, Climate Data Center says
The U.S. has just completed the warmest consecutive 12-month stretch on record, according to a new report released by the National Climate Data Center. The first four months of 2012 have also been the...
View ArticleFlorida moving toward record for consecutive hurricane-free years
The five-day precipitation outlook from the National Weather Service’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center shows more than 3 inches of rain falling over parts of Southeastern Florida through...
View ArticleHurricane Center boosts chances for new tropical storm
The National Hurricane Center was giving Invest 94L a 20 percent chance of development on Thursday. Click on image for link to updated original. (Credit: NOAA/ NHC) Forecasters, including those at the...
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