Weather, Storms & Hurricane Blog

 
Though many in South Florida have been welcoming the leftover rains from Tropical Storm Olga that have been falling overnight and early this morning, but it also is making for poor meteor shower viewing. The annual Geminid Meteor Shower has returned, and folks here in Southern Florida are having a hard time viewing this years […]

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Rain On The Way? Really?
Tropical Storm Olga might be nothing more than a remnant low pressure system now south of Cuba in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, but some of the moisture associated with the surprise December tropical system will enhance Florida rains the next 48 hours. Atmospheric moisture levels are already increasing over South and […]

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Our December Tropical Storm Olga Fighting The Odds
Subtropical Storm Olga, has now dropped the “sub” as the storm has developed into a fully warm core tropical cyclone. Not only has the storm become tropical, but has intensified while interacting with the mountainous island of Hispaniola. Tropical Storm Olga’s winds are now 60mph with higher gusts, […]

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December 2007 Plains Ice Storm
A significant Ice Storm is affecting a large portion of the central Untied States, from the Great Plains into the Midwest and Great Lakes. Northern Oklahoma and much of Kansas, seeing significant icing on roadways and tree’s, causing power outages and very dangerous road conditions. 15 people alone have died in […]

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Off Season Sub-Tropical Storm Olga Forms
What the heck is going on? Crazy warm start to December for many in the Southeast, including all of us here in Florida, and now late this evening, the National Hurricane Center has named a Sub-Tropical Storm Olga. The large low pressure area that has been just east of Puerto […]

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No Go For Atlantis Launch Today
It’s a beautiful warm Sunday morning here in Florida, and I had planned to maybe head up to the Kennedy Space Center for this afternoons second attempt launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis flight STS-122, but the launch has been postponed once again. They have rescheduled the next attempt for no […]

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Very Warm Weekend & Week Ahead For Florida
It might be December, but here in Central and Southern Florida it’s been feeling more like late September early October. The warm weather today is outstanding for a late fall weekend in early December. This is the type of weather we love here, as it’s not too warm with mild […]

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