The Weather in Your Neck of the Woods

[Dexter Morgan]

63 and clear today (My weather is always so boring!  ) It's supposed to rain the next three days 

I'd gladly trade ya PIYA. 

[Dexter Morgan]

Right now it's 7:46 pm. The temperature is 7* and the wind is blowin' at 17 mph, and the wind chill factor is - 10*.    It looks like by the weekend, we may get 50* weather!!! Wooohooo!!! 

[Palehorse]

Got a nice drift about knee high across the drive. By morning it should be waist high if the wind is sustained through the night. 

[Palehorse]

I hope we get a lot of that lake effect snow that we are seeing now. That'd be too sweet! 

[Locutus]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Biting cold to hit S. Florida Wednesday
Lows temperatures are expected in the mid-30s with wind chills at 24

By Stephanie Horvath

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

9:16 PM EST, January 1, 2008

Pull out the wool socks and flannel shirts.

Starting Wednesday night South Florida will shiver through temperatures dipping close to freezing. The wintry blast might even break a few records.

"It's hovering around," said Pablo Santos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "We're looking at a close-to-record low."

The weather service predicts the coldest temperatures Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with lows dipping into the mid-30s in Palm Beach County and the upper-30s in Broward County. But wind could make it feel as cold as 24 degrees.

Santos said West Palm Beach's record low for Jan. 3 is 31 degrees, set in 1898. The city's temperature is forecast to drop to 34 on Thursday.

Fort Lauderdale's record low for Jan. 3 is 39 degrees set in 1979. It's expected to break that record with a predicted temperature of 38 degrees on Thursday.

On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service issued a freeze watch for the western parts of Palm Beach and Broward counties for Wednesday and Thursday and expected to upgrade that to a freeze warning by Wednesday morning. It also issued a wind chill watch for all of South Florida.

Both a hard freeze and frost are possible, and a biting wind could make it feel like it's below freezing.

The weather lingo boils down to this: Take in your plants and turn up your thermostat.

The weather service predicted we'd start feeling the chillier weather Wednesday with highs only reaching the upper 50s and wind chills as low as 37 degrees.

"People will notice a difference. We're looking for highs that struggle to hit the 60-degree mark," Santos said.

Vegetable farmers have prepped helicopters to fly above their fields and keep frost from forming on their crops. Nursery owners are covering up tender plants. Fort Lauderdale officials were already preparing for hundreds of homeless to flood shelters to escape the cold.

"We are just trying to get people off the street so they don't add to the taxpayers' costs by getting sick with pneumonia and going to the hospital," said Jamie Costas, who oversees the Fort Lauderdale Police Department's Homeless Outreach Unit. "A lot of people say, 'I'll be OK.' Then they realize that it really is going to be cold. The majority of them don't have access to the Internet and television."

A dispatcher at the Palm Beach County Emergency Management Office said it would not know until Wednesday morning whether it would open its cold shelters. The county usually activates the shelters when the temperature drops below 40. Folks who want to go to a Palm Beach County shelter should call 211.

The cold weather is expected to blow out of town by Thursday evening, with lows rising to the mid-50s in Palm Beach and Broward counties. By Friday morning, the highs will be in the lower 70s.

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[Locutus]

I'll be freezing my ass off! 

[Dexter Morgan]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Biting cold to hit S. Florida Wednesday
Lows temperatures are expected in the mid-30s with wind chills at 24

By Stephanie Horvath

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

9:16 PM EST, January 1, 2008

Pull out the wool socks and flannel shirts.

Starting Wednesday night South Florida will shiver through temperatures dipping close to freezing. The wintry blast might even break a few records.

"It's hovering around," said Pablo Santos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "We're looking at a close-to-record low."

The weather service predicts the coldest temperatures Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with lows dipping into the mid-30s in Palm Beach County and the upper-30s in Broward County. But wind could make it feel as cold as 24 degrees.

Santos said West Palm Beach's record low for Jan. 3 is 31 degrees, set in 1898. The city's temperature is forecast to drop to 34 on Thursday.

Fort Lauderdale's record low for Jan. 3 is 39 degrees set in 1979. It's expected to break that record with a predicted temperature of 38 degrees on Thursday.

On Tuesday night, the National Weather Service issued a freeze watch for the western parts of Palm Beach and Broward counties for Wednesday and Thursday and expected to upgrade that to a freeze warning by Wednesday morning. It also issued a wind chill watch for all of South Florida.

Both a hard freeze and frost are possible, and a biting wind could make it feel like it's below freezing.

The weather lingo boils down to this: Take in your plants and turn up your thermostat.

The weather service predicted we'd start feeling the chillier weather Wednesday with highs only reaching the upper 50s and wind chills as low as 37 degrees.

"People will notice a difference. We're looking for highs that struggle to hit the 60-degree mark," Santos said.

Vegetable farmers have prepped helicopters to fly above their fields and keep frost from forming on their crops. Nursery owners are covering up tender plants. Fort Lauderdale officials were already preparing for hundreds of homeless to flood shelters to escape the cold.

"We are just trying to get people off the street so they don't add to the taxpayers' costs by getting sick with pneumonia and going to the hospital," said Jamie Costas, who oversees the Fort Lauderdale Police Department's Homeless Outreach Unit. "A lot of people say, 'I'll be OK.' Then they realize that it really is going to be cold. The majority of them don't have access to the Internet and television."

A dispatcher at the Palm Beach County Emergency Management Office said it would not know until Wednesday morning whether it would open its cold shelters. The county usually activates the shelters when the temperature drops below 40. Folks who want to go to a Palm Beach County shelter should call 211.

The cold weather is expected to blow out of town by Thursday evening, with lows rising to the mid-50s in Palm Beach and Broward counties. By Friday morning, the highs will be in the lower 70s.

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OMG!!!! That sounds like a natural disaster!!!  Jesum Crow Loc!!! Do you have a furnace or fireplace?  Good God!!! The oranges will freeze!!!   

[Locutus]

OMG!!!! That sounds like a natural disaster!!!  Jesum Crow Loc!!! Do you have a furnace or fireplace?  Good God!!! The oranges will freeze!!!   

No to the furnace and fireplace, although the central air has been known to send out central heat when needed. 

[Dexter Morgan]

I'll be freezing my ass off! 

LOL!!!! Your baguettes too. 

[Locutus]

LOL!!!! Your baguettes too. 

That and more. 

[Locutus]

Hasn't hit yet though.

Observed at:     Ft Lauderdale, Florida
Elevation:    7 ft / 2 m

69 °F / 21 °C
Overcast
Humidity:    63%
Dew Point:    56 °F / 13 °C
Wind:    13 mph / 20 km/h / 5.7 m/s  from the NNW
Pressure:    30.16 in / 1021 hPa (Steady)
Visibility:    10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:    0 out of 16
Clouds:    Few 2300 ft / 701 m
Overcast 3500 ft / 1066 m
(Above Ground Level)

[Dexter Morgan]

Two county plows keep going by, blading the road out here. They must be having trouble keeping it open.  The temperature is 5* and the wind is 16 mph. The wind chill factor is - 13*.  Glad I'm inside.   

[me]

I'll be freezing my ass off! 

Join the crowd.... Wind chill here is -14 so I'd be happy to trade ya....

[Locutus]

No chance.   

[me]

No chance.   

Ah, come on.  Where's yer sportin' blood?