WEATHER / CLIMATE
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Specify location, date, time and temperature. I.E: Eastern Tijuana, Mexico , November 19th, 9:39pm pst, 17c.
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The surf temperature at the Palm Beach Inlet is 86 degrees F. What is the current temperature in your closest Ocean or large body of water?
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Tropical, Subtropical, Temperate and Frigid
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The following was summarized from information on the Wikipedia web site. The tropics are the geographic region centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer at approximately 23°30' N latitude and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23°30' S latitude. The word "tropics" comes from Greek tropos meaning "turn", because the apparent position of the Sun oscillates between the two tropics with a period that defines the average length of a year. In the Tropics, the sun is directly overhead at least once during the year - at the edges of the tropics this occurs at the summer solstice and over the equator at the equinoxes. This is the hottest part of the…
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Long term models have persistent cold air funneling its way deep down south. A ridge is blocking the air from retreating, so it may be long term and COLD! If it keeps up, we may have freezes into SW Florida. I am preparing now as I am off school until Jan 8th, so I do not get "caught". Where is El NIno when you need him?
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I know there have been similar topics discussed on Palmtalk in the past. My recent visit to the Miami area, however, has compelled me to want to explore it further. It is usually stated and written that South Florida's climate is subtropical. I would argue that extreme South Florida (and at the very least the coastal Miami/Ft. Lauderdale areas) has a fully tropical climate. Note, the FL Keys tend to be considered truly tropical already, so I won't include the Keys in this discussion. I contend that, based on my first-hand observations of the area's vegetation and weather, as well as climate data available, extreme SE Florida meets all different definitions of a…
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Its not winter yet, thankfully, but the cold fronts have started. There have been cold fronts periodically, but you could never tell a difference from them, that is until the week before last week. A cold front came through and knocked morning temps into the low 60's, highs remained the upper 80's though. Looking ahead into this week, another cold front is forecast to sink south across the eastern US. Morning temps here are currently forecast to be in the upper 50's toward the end of this week, highs in the upper 70's to low 80's. If this comes to pass, it would be the first noticeable cold front of the season
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Looks like next week is cold o rama for Florida.
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Well, winter has been here for one week officially (In Oz we go by the calendar month, so winter is June-July-August). We got our first single digit night last night at home, down to 9C. That's about as cold as I'd like it to get! Unfortunately we still have a l o n g way to go. Days are picture perfect with cloudless skies and no breeze...millpond conditions, with temps in the low 20s C. No palm yellowing yet, but it always starts to show once minimums go below 10C (50F). Daryl
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I thought I'd start a temp thread again like we did last year. It seemed to work pretty good for comparing microclimates and keeping tabs on each other's garden woes. Friday, December 19th, 2008 This was right about my coldest night yet at my new place. 40.5F. even though a light breeze was blowing...brrrrrrrrrrr. That surprised me that I could get that cold even though there was wind. But there was no frost even at the bottom of the hill or on rooftops. I think the humidity was too high to let any more radiational cooling happen. My parents place in lemon Grove was 39F. How about you guys. Tonights gonna be a cold one because I think it's getting drier.
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Last winter there were several threads where we would all check in every morning after a really cold one (weather that is not beer) and report our cold temps for the night. I found the comparisons very educating and the info really helped me solidify my decision on where to live when Jen and I moved earlier this year. So I thought I'd start this thread where us Southern Californians can congregate and report temps for comparison and education sake all winter long. This way the temp info is all in one place instead of a bunch of random threads that always seem to get duplicated in multiple forums. So SOCAL, lets give it a try and see how it goes. I hit 45F this morn…
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Well the southern summer is technically finished. Right here it doesn't feel like it. The long range forecast says that March will be nearly identical to February here in Perth. Just two days ago we had 2C dewpoints. Today we've had a 37C day and now at night the beautiful humidity has moved in with 23C temps and 20C dewpoints. Talk about extremes. Tomorrow will be humid and 30C after a night around 20C. It's still and humid tonight. Wonderful. So what are your Autumn or Spring experiences? Best regards Tyrone
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Time for a new thread now Summer is well and truly over. The next three months I have to be careful don't get caught out by a surprise frost, sometimes amount of wind/cloud cover defies even the professionals best efforts to forecast it. From 1 September it gets much easier, to get a significant frost that late needs perfect conditions which are easy to see coming. Count yourself lucky if you never get frost where you garden.
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Arbor Day Foundation hardiness map 1 2 3
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http://www.arborday.org/media/zones.cfm Zone 10 now includes Cape Canaveral and much of Tampa-St Pete. The Portland, Oregon heat island is Zone 9. Washington Post story.
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Something not usually extensively shared and discussed on palmtalk. Kind of an observatory, sharing record lows and other usefull climate data. I would suggest a previous report about the before-winter. Here's mine: it was a late november and december unusually cold, without cloud covered sky and temps getting down to 2C/35,6F, once.
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Hello everyone! So as a resident of the Athens Riviera I am really puzzled about the true palm potential of south Athens! I mean even in here I have read so many misconceptions on the climate of south Athens (even from Greeks) and coupled with a widespread lack of motivated gardeners in the country that I can not really assess the true palm potential of the Athens Riviera. But I would like to start from what I think I am generally good at: climatology and meteorology. So the Athens Riviera (basically anything south of Nea Smyrni) has a semi-arid climate. Annual rainfall varies from around 330mm in Piraeus to just below 400mm in Nea Smyrni. The mean annual temperature…
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Hello everyone! Its been a long time since my last posts here and given that we now have more than 7 years of meteorological data from the area of Lindos in SE Rhodes in Greece, we can see some very interesting things according to the National Observatory of Athens fan aspirated meteorological station in Lindos. It appears that it is by far the warmest area annually in geographical Europe beating even the warmest areas of the Canaries islands (which are not located in Europe anyways). Below Lindos data the past 7 years that the station is operating. By achieving an amazing 21.89C mean annual temperature it beats even Tenerife South AP station in the Canari…
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As it is now summer and the old spring topic section was getting to be a magnum opus I thought it a good time to start off a new page so to speak. Yesterdays rainfall celebrations turned out a bit premature. I decided to plant a few things and once I got 2cms below the surface the ground was still bone dry and this was after I had the sprinklers running on monday. However inspite of the meagre rain and hand hosing, the palms are taking off big time. I get a shock when I really look hard at some of them. So far the best performers are Livistona fulva, Livistona rotundifolia and Dysis gracilis sp pink crownshaft. Pritchardia hillebrandtii sp blue dwarf has grown steadily th…
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I don't know what happened as the forecast was much warmer yesterday. Again, the two GFS models are not on the same page with the NAM model somewhat warmer than the MAV. Per the NWS GFS model, forecast lows for Wednesday morning January 21. Tampa 33F St. Petersburg 36F Miami 44F Orlando 32F Ft. Lauderdale 42F West Palm Beach 38F Ft. Myers 36F
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Well, a cold front is expected to dip down through here over the next couple of days, with it comes lower humidity and low overnight temps. Even high temperatures will take a slight ding with highs only in the mid 80's in spots early next week. Lows will be in the mid to upper 60's in spots across northern Florida for a couple nights. It will be our first real taste of "fall". Im almost glad, but i know that this is a sign that ill need to break out the sheets and lights in a few months. Unfortunately, this front will not bring anything to central or south Florida besides some rain, which some of yall might not complain about. Anyways, just figured we could jumpstart the …
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Looking Back at the Great US Freezes 1 2 3
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So, its winter and some are nervous. Well, you should be, always. Here are some historical references. From: http://www.raingardens.com/psst/articles/artic03.htm by Richard Travis San Antonio, Texas A History of Severe Freezes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley -- Part III by Richard Travis San Antonio, Texas (This is the last in a 3-part series on a history of hard freezes in the Lower Valley. This part covers the two severe freezes in the 1980's, with a comparison of the severity of these two freezes versus previous freezes in the Valley.) After 1962, it would be 22 seasons until the next severe freeze. The seventies saw a number of cool to cold winters…
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Poll on Florida hardiness zones 1 2 3
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Map #1 https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-florida-usda-plant-zone-hardiness-map.php Map #2 https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-florida-2012-usda-plant-zone-hardiness-map.php Map #3
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Early Start to the Rainy Season? 1 2
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There was a significant downpour here yesterday, and weather.com reports 0.37 inches of rain. Some of my potted plants were drenched and it was raining when I got home again today. At least we won't have to deal with as bad a drought as we had last year at this time.
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Well, here is a forecast to strike fear in your heart. WHEN AND WHERE WILL THE COLDEST AIR BE? Well, the coldest air will likely enter the Southeastern US between Friday and Sunday of next week. We will be able to pin point an exact date by Tuesday or Wednesday. So where will the coldest air be? The coldest air will likely be over the Eastern and Southeastern US. The Gulf Coast states that are most likely to be impacted are Eastern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida. This could change by next weekend as things become clearer. It is also unknown how far the cold air will make it into Florida. http://www.gulfcoastweathercenter.com/brief-update-on…
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OK, it is officially winter here, and it will be a northern summer in a couple of weeks I guess? The weather has been nice here, with some rainy days, some sunny, and warmish nights and warm days...I certainly can't complain. I hope this continues for another 8-10 weeks... How is everyone's season shaping up? Daryl
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Spoiled by November warmth, off to a chilly start with lows in the very low 40's. This 80's weather is over, so enjoy the last few remaining hours
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