Without trade winds, the "hot Atlantic would mean El Nino would become ineffective this year, and we would have a storm fest like in 2020, when La Nina was around. It may indeed be El Nino, but if Nature plays her cards right, El Nino can end up acting like La Nina, LOL!!
Well, it's only June 9th. Too early to say if that area of the Gulf will remain cool. It can heat up if a heat dome encompasses the Gulf states. Next week there may be a heat dome of some sort from Texas to the Southern plains. I don't know just how extensive the heat dome might be.
I agree. Well, El Nino just may be your friend, if it is not counteracted by hot water temps. At the same token, wind shear can increase rainy-season thunderstorms in Florida. I notice there has already been some real doozies of thunderstorms in spots in Florida. Some are prolific lightning producers, LOL!! I have seen a few big storms on some web cams, and also I use the weatherstem web site for lightning tracking.
Summer thunderstorms in south Florida terrified me when I first moved down here because of all the grounded lightning. I've nearly levitated a few times from the sudden very loud crack of thunder simultaneously with the bright flash of lightning hitting nearby. One time driving home from a late arriving flight in Ft Myers the sky stayed lit up almost continually with lightning all the way home. Funny thing is a lot of the storms that were supposed to hit us either went around or dissipated before hitting here. One was only a half mile down the road but no rain hit us, very noisy and bright with lightning but no rain here. The Tampa area gets most of those storms, not so much down here right now.
We will soon be getting them daily in the late afternoon to early evening which makes the nights horrifically humid and uncomfortable for about 3 months. The rest of the year isn't bad here. Decades ago I lived in Ft Lauderdale for 14 months and it was much more humid most of the year than it is here on the Gulf. I much prefer this side of the state.
In the winter, the eastern coast is often warmer than the western coast, so I prefer the eastern coast. Of course, it only makes sense the western coast gets the cold fronts first before the eastern side. The summer, I am not sure which would be more humid. I suppose the eastern side, because of the warm Gulf Stream and for a tendency of South Florida summer nights to have lows in the 80-85 range. Now, that sounds like that was some storm driving home from the airport that night. Someone had to have had strong winds, heavy rain or even hail from THAT one. Was that a winter or summer storm? I have seen my fair share of severe weather in Florida over 37 years of usually annual trips to Florida. I have never seen a Florida tornado but one time in 1998 a spring "derecho" damaging storm. It caused a lot of problem for Palm Beach and other towns up and down the coast, through Miami. A similar derecho I would see months later here in Syracuse, N.Y. in the Labor Day Storm that was even more damaging than the Florida derecho. Wind gusts were 115 miles an hour in downtown Syracuse, 77 wind gust at the airport, and tremendous lightning rates as high as 120 strokes a minute!! Power was out for 3 days, and maybe for a week for SOME folks; and there were several days of curfews in SOME of the worst-hit spots, nighttime curfews. Our area did not have a curfew. Two of our State Fair workers died when winds blew down part of a building, and the Fair's last day was cancelled.
Without trade winds, the "hot Atlantic would mean El Nino would become ineffective this year, and we would have a storm fest like in 2020, when La Nina was around. It may indeed be El Nino, but if Nature plays her cards right, El Nino can end up acting like La Nina, LOL!!
I noticed the eastern Gulf is cooler than the Atlantic or Caribbean so maybe that will help us in western Florida...I hope.
Well, it's only June 9th. Too early to say if that area of the Gulf will remain cool. It can heat up if a heat dome encompasses the Gulf states. Next week there may be a heat dome of some sort from Texas to the Southern plains. I don't know just how extensive the heat dome might be.
I sincerely hope it goes elsewhere. We don't need any more trouble.
I agree. Well, El Nino just may be your friend, if it is not counteracted by hot water temps. At the same token, wind shear can increase rainy-season thunderstorms in Florida. I notice there has already been some real doozies of thunderstorms in spots in Florida. Some are prolific lightning producers, LOL!! I have seen a few big storms on some web cams, and also I use the weatherstem web site for lightning tracking.
Summer thunderstorms in south Florida terrified me when I first moved down here because of all the grounded lightning. I've nearly levitated a few times from the sudden very loud crack of thunder simultaneously with the bright flash of lightning hitting nearby. One time driving home from a late arriving flight in Ft Myers the sky stayed lit up almost continually with lightning all the way home. Funny thing is a lot of the storms that were supposed to hit us either went around or dissipated before hitting here. One was only a half mile down the road but no rain hit us, very noisy and bright with lightning but no rain here. The Tampa area gets most of those storms, not so much down here right now.
We will soon be getting them daily in the late afternoon to early evening which makes the nights horrifically humid and uncomfortable for about 3 months. The rest of the year isn't bad here. Decades ago I lived in Ft Lauderdale for 14 months and it was much more humid most of the year than it is here on the Gulf. I much prefer this side of the state.
In the winter, the eastern coast is often warmer than the western coast, so I prefer the eastern coast. Of course, it only makes sense the western coast gets the cold fronts first before the eastern side. The summer, I am not sure which would be more humid. I suppose the eastern side, because of the warm Gulf Stream and for a tendency of South Florida summer nights to have lows in the 80-85 range. Now, that sounds like that was some storm driving home from the airport that night. Someone had to have had strong winds, heavy rain or even hail from THAT one. Was that a winter or summer storm? I have seen my fair share of severe weather in Florida over 37 years of usually annual trips to Florida. I have never seen a Florida tornado but one time in 1998 a spring "derecho" damaging storm. It caused a lot of problem for Palm Beach and other towns up and down the coast, through Miami. A similar derecho I would see months later here in Syracuse, N.Y. in the Labor Day Storm that was even more damaging than the Florida derecho. Wind gusts were 115 miles an hour in downtown Syracuse, 77 wind gust at the airport, and tremendous lightning rates as high as 120 strokes a minute!! Power was out for 3 days, and maybe for a week for SOME folks; and there were several days of curfews in SOME of the worst-hit spots, nighttime curfews. Our area did not have a curfew. Two of our State Fair workers died when winds blew down part of a building, and the Fair's last day was cancelled.