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Meanwhile we were in the eighties over the weekend while we put up decorations, and then down in the fifties as yes, we continued putting up decorations. All I can say is bah, humbug!As the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season began, hurricane experts were unsure what to expect: How many named storms would form? How many major hurricanes?
On one hand, scientists were forecasting an El Niño. The natural phenomenon is part of a recurring ocean-and-atmosphere pattern that warms and cools the eastern tropical Pacific through El Niño and La Niña events that last from one to three years. El Niño conditions usually lead to below-average hurricane seasons because of an increase in wind shear, which can disrupt the structure of tropical cyclones.
On the other hand, the oceans were already record-warm. And warm sea surface temperatures tend to lead to above-average hurricane activity.
The seasonal forecast team at Colorado State University wasn’t sure which phenomenon would prove more important.
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Meanwhile, here in Central Florida we're in for several days of nasty weather, unless you want to fly a very heavy kite:November 2023 was by far the hottest November on record globally in analyses dating back to 1850, said NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information on December 14. NOAA, NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service all rated November 2023 as the warmest November on record, beating the previous November record by a large margin.
56 degrees, sunny, and calm here today. Pretty ideal. I guess it's going to turn nasty Sunday night, but not cold. Snowfall total so far this winter: 0.2".LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:06 pm We're unseasonably warm in the low 40s but not crazy unseasonably in the low 70s warm as has happened enough times in the past so as not to be totally shocking. I like my walks in this weather. I layer up and then unlayer as I go. It's much better than going out in shorts and not being able to further unlayer.
My parents had a house that the subdivision really messed up by not bringing enough fill in before they built. Their yard would have standing water whenever it rained. That is until I dug a little trench through the little woods to let the water drain into the little ditch beside the neighborhood border fence.
Looking to celebrate the holiday season like one of those festive movie scenes you’ve always seen? Hot chocolate, a fresh dusting of snow on the ground and a crackling fire inviting you to stay inside. Well, if you live in Florida, keep dreaming. While Central Florida has had its weather extremes on Christmas, none have included a true White Christmas. The climatological probability for Orlando and Central Florida to see snow is 0.0%! But that doesn’t mean winter weather is completely out of the cards. Last year, some across Central Florida woke up to a “beat” of a sound outside, as sleet fell from the sky.
There have been several cold outbreaks around Christmas in Central Florida and around the state. One most recently occurred in 2022 when temperatures dropped into the 20s and 30s Christmas morning. High temperatures only reached 46 degrees in Orlando that year, making it the coldest Christmas Day since 1983. That also is the year that holds the record for the coldest Christmas for Orlando. The low temperature that year was 21 degrees. In fact, the cold was felt statewide on this day in 1983. Northern Florida had temperatures dip into the teens. Places like Tallahassee dipped to 14 degrees, with a high temperature of only 29 degrees. This was also Tallahassee’s coldest Christmas on record. Jacksonville dropped to 11 degrees, with a high of only 30 degrees. Miami was cold by Miami standards, but not as frigid as most of Florida. Miami had a high of 51 degrees on Christmas Day of 1983. If you’re wondering, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Miami is 27 degrees.
The warmest Christmas for Central Florida was pretty recent, and that was in 2015. This is when Orlando hit 86 degrees, with a low of 69 degrees. These temperatures are more typical of May rather than Christmas in Central Florida.
So what is the standard for Christmas Day in Orlando? The average high is 72 degrees, with an average low of 51 degrees.
I remember back when I was very, very young (Johnson was president and no, not Andrew ) we lived in Falmouth, Massachusetts. We were singing midnight mass for Christmas. And as we were finishing up we heard... rain . Nothing more depressing for a kid than knowing that the little bit of snow we had on the ground was going to be washed away.LordMortis wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:51 am iiiiiI'mm dreaming of a wet Christmas... I'm not sure how many are white, but it's a lot less than when I was young. Though we occasionally had 70 degree Christmas as well. We also had several white Halloweens when I was young.
What happens on Boxing day there?
Everything closed. IDK what the natives did behind closed doors. Box, I guess. We were able to get meals at our hotel but both Philipsburg and Marigot were ghost towns.
Reminds me of Easter in the Philippines. At 5 pm on the Wednesday before, the whole country shuts down. If you are not prepared for that, you are SOL, nothing at all is available. It stays that way until Saturday evening, when everything reopens. Easter Sunday itself is business as usual.
Scotland was REALLY like that too when I lived there way back when.Jeff V wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 9:34 pmReminds me of Easter in the Philippines. At 5 pm on the Wednesday before, the whole country shuts down. If you are not prepared for that, you are SOL, nothing at all is available. It stays that way until Saturday evening, when everything reopens. Easter Sunday itself is business as usual.
...cold! Cold I say. It may be only 39 but Im freezing and my back is cold even though I have a gheater blowing from the front and have to keep turning it off. It feels really cold.O, the weather outside is...