Isolated Storms Heading For The Panhandle Today

Strong Storm Chances Shift East On Friday

This cold front boundary will shift overnight Thursday into northern Florida region and the associated weather with will do the same. Tallahassee to Jacksonville to Gainesville, will see the best chances for isolated storms, maybe a few strong, but mostly gusty winds and rain with the passage of the front. Most of the energy to provide more severe weather will be lifting northward out of the Southeast and will lessen the threat by late in the day.

Some of the coolest temperatures of the season are on the way later in the weekend and into next week. The first real punch of cooler weather is in the forecast and will focus on that more this weekend, until though, keep an eye to the sky the next 24 hours for those of you living in the Panhandle and northern Florida region.

 

 

Grinding Away On Weatherzine On This Gloomy Morning

Overcast Morning, Working Hard On Weatherzine -

What a gloomy morning here in South Florida. Woke up to sprinkles and overcast skies with a cool easterly breeze. Low pressure out in the Gulf helping to create a overrunning rain setup later today, and some gusty winds as the pressure gradient tightens up the next few days. Defiantly feels more like a Florida early fall day, but moisture levels will be elevated well into the weekend with showers and isolated storm chances, which I hope to intercept a few storms for the site. Any chances for storms this late in the season, keeps my attention high, since soon there will be months without thunderstorms, unless associated with a cold front or warm front boundary. Next week the first decent cold front is expected to plow thought Florida bringing the first shot of much cooler weather. Some models bring 40’s-50 night time lows to central and South Florida interior locations. I’m truly not ready for cooler weather.

Weatherzine Keeping Me Busy, Which I Enjoy

I’m continuing to build the Weatherzine.net site structure and content today, and there is a ton of work to be done. Of course, at the same time, I still need to post daily articles for the site, so that keeps me busy as well, oh and, doing all this while trying to shoot video picture content on the road. It will become much easier once I complete the overall layout of the site and sub pages with archived Florida weather content, including Florida storm chases, and hurricane intercepts. Then I can just focus on daily stories, and my personal blog section. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy staying busy like this, and it really feels good to begin a new fresh web project, and begin new web theme for my storm chasing here in Florida and nationally. With all the server hosting issues with Stormvideographer.com, it’s nice to start fresh. That site became large fast, with advertisers, thousands of daily readers, and impressive web traffic during severe weather events. Now, I hope to implement all that into Weatherzine and make it more interactive for visitors to the site with forums, and under submitted content from around Florida.

So, going to make another cup of coffee and dive back into working on this overcast morning. Have a great day folks!

-Jeff Gammons

Stormvideographer Blog Soon To Be Obsolete, Going New!

I have been hard working on my new Florida weather super site and blog. I’m going with a new theme format as you can see. This is more like a magazine style home page and embedded blog posts. My Stormvideographer.com blog was growing so fast, that I had to upgrade not only my server host, by my design layout. As I move into the slower storm months here in Florida, this will allow me to move over all my older content from the old blog domain and server. I have over 600 archived posts to import into this new design, and some tweaking of the images so they can fit into this layout. It’s sure going to be a lot of work the next month or so, but I’ll have the time if the weather remains slow enough. Time will tell!

All My Personal Posts Can Be Found Here

As you can see, this page is my personal blog page. This is where I will post more personal posts on my current happenings with my Storm chasing either here in Florida or when on expeditions in the Plains or hurricane intercepts. You’ll also find my more personal family posts, and anything else I feel like sharing to my readers. Just remember when clicking “Blogs” in the top menu bar to click on “Gammons Personal Blog” in the drop down tab. The other option is to click the “Weatherzine Posts”, which will give you a view of the last 5 weather posts on the site in the non-magazine style format.

Stormvideographer.com Blog Soon To Be Obsolete

Eventually, I’ll will be forwarding my old domain “Stormvideographer.com” over to this one once my full move is complete. This would likely be after the holidays. I will begin to post all of my personal daily updates here starting November 1, 2008, instead of the old Stormvideographer blog site. I hope you like the new look and layout, and look forward to reading, commenting and watching videos here. This site will become very interactive with video displays, full forums, and user submitted content.

I’ll be working hard to bring the best Florida weather coverage from everything daily, to storm chasing. I look forward to growing the site and continuing to grow my readership around the world. A lot to come, so stay tuned!

Thanks – Jeff Gammons

 

Caribbean Tropical Wave Shows No Signs of Development

Like always… monitoring the tropics closely right up to the end.

 

 

 

 

Beach Erosion Hitting Hutchinson Island

• NWS – Melbourne, FL

LONG PERIOD SWELLS NECESSITATE A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN THE OPEN ATLANTIC…ESPECIALLY IN THE GULF STREAM WHERE NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE STEEPER WAVES. TRAVERSING INLETS DURING THE OUTGOING TIDE MAY ALSO BE HAZARDOUS FOR SMALL CRAFT.

Active Weather Pattern To Continue Erosion Threat

A stronger low pressure system and cold front are in the forecast later this week, and will likely add to the ongoing beach erosion complications along the Florida east coast. We will continue to monitor the area beaches throughout the week and into the weekend as the next system moves in from the west.

 

 

 

 

 

Game One World Series Tampa Bay Forecast

World Series Game 1 Weather Tampa Bay

First game of the 2008 World Series weather is expected to be outstanding in Tampa Wednesday night. Although, Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays is a dome stadium, tailgating and after parties in the greater Tampa Bay area will enjoy fine weather for the first two games, with temperatures in the upper 70’s to lower 80’s under clear skies. Baseball fans will be enjoying some nice Central Florida Fall weather as our great Tampa Bay Rays take on the Phillies starting Wednesday and Thursday evenings. So, whether your heading to the local beaches early in the day before the game, or poolside at the hotel, you’ll have no weather worries for sure. This is a slight chance of showers on Thursday evening.

• Game One Tamp Bay Forecast- National Weather Service:
• Wednesday Night, Partly Cloudy. Temperatures 65-70F. Winds from the northeast at 5-10mph.
• Game Two Tampa Bay Forecast – National Weather Service:
• - Thursday Night, Mostly Cloudy with a 30% chances of showers. Temperatures 66-71F. Winds from the east at 10-15mph.

Storm Shelf Cloud Scenes Like This Coming To A Close

Where Did All The Sea Breeze Storm Go?

Being a Storm Chaser, the news I’m about to share with you is killing me. The Florida 2008 thunderstorm season has come to a close, as the dry season kicks in for Fall and Winter. Not only this time of year do we change the clocks to shorter days and longer nights (not a fan of long nights), and watch the sun angle become lower in the sky, we also see our wet thunderstorm season over Florida wane as the once tropical moisture rich atmosphere is replaced with drier northern air that helps to scour out behind each cool front. The clash of sea breeze and lake boundaries that produced strong to severe thunderstorms from May until now are a thing of the past, and will return in the spring of 2009. That seems so far away especially when you live for strong convection to happen everyday, at least wishing for it to. It will be missed, and it will be a long brutal winter for me awaiting the new thunderstorm season to return in the spring.

Pulse Shelf Clouds vs. Squall Line Gust Fronts

Impressive shelf cloud scenes like the one in the above Florida pulse thunderstorm picture from summer, will likely only take place when associated with a cold front and squall line moving into the state during the winter months. The only forcing during the winter months to produce gust fronts like this, happen ahead of the cold fronts pre-frontal boundary, where a squall line of strong storms digs into the state. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until the sea breeze thunderstorm season kicks back in about 6-7 months from now.

Three O’clock Lightning storm magic comes to a close, will you miss it?

Remembering Florida Wildfires of Springs 2007-2008

Remembering The Wildfires of 2007-2008

There are no scenes today like the one in this picture taken back in the spring of 2007. This Buckhead Ridge wildfire was 1 of dozens and dozens that year to develop, as the severe drought conditions took over all of Florida. Fires became widespread for months as dry ground conditions and gusty winds made for prime wildfire weather. I remember shooting fire weather video and pictures almost daily for weeks, with little rain and storm shots that I normally would be shooting for The Weather Channel. I never shot so many consecutive wildfire scenes from South Florida to Orlando over a two month period. There were times when Florida was socked in with significant smoke plumes that made visibilities to be reduced to zero, and make it difficult to breathe when outside. There was no storm chasing in Florida that spring, it was all firestorm chasing from Lake Okeechobee to Melbourne to Tampa.

Back To Chasing Storms, not Smoke Plumes

Today things are much better as we near the Fall dry season of 2008. The wet season of 2008 was very active, and all those prime fire weather conditions were a thing of the past by mid summer. A persistent sea breeze thunderstorm season, and a few weak tropical storm systems, brought steady rains for months putting a end to the severe drought ground conditions. I actually spent time this past summer chasing lightning storms once again and not smoke plumes. It felt like Florid once again with the active rainy season, and kept me busy unlike the two previous years.

The Affects of The Florida Wildfires On You?

How bad did the Florida wildfires, smoke, and drought weather affect you in the springs of 2007-2008?

Lake Okeechobee Levels Back To Normal After Drought

Lake Okeechobee water levels remain fairly near normal as we begin the dry season here at the end of October 2008. This mornings lake level is 14.96 feet, down a little from a week or two ago as rainfall totals are beginning to drop for the Fall season. The lake level naturally falls with the onset of the dry season, but this time around unlike the last two dry seasons, were not dealing with severe drought conditions. At least this year were heading into the winter season with a lake holding water and not 3-4 feet below normal like in the fall of 2006 and 2007. A healthy summer rainy season, along with the help from Tropical Storm Fay and over 20+ inches of rain, a huge dent was put in the Florida drought that was ongoing since the summer of 2006. Tropical Storm Fay is a huge factor in why the lake level came up so fast, as intense rainfall totals over the lake and up-stream in the Kissimmee River basin received flooding rains.

Less Lake Bed Wildfire In Spring 2009?

It will be interesting to see if later this winter and into spring 2009, if there are any wildfires within the lake levee system. The previous last two springs there have been significant wildfires within the lake bottom from low lake water levels, but now with the water much higher, this could be a thing of the past, well at least until the next drought.

Your Thoughts On The Local Tourist Season

Do you think now that the Lake Okeechobee water levels are back up, it will help with the winter tourist season and business in communities that surround the lake?

 

Dolphins / Baltimore Game Weather

Dolphins Looking For That Next Win

The Miami Dolphins (2-3) looking for that next win after last weeks disappointing defeat during the last 1 minute of the game with Houston. We should of won that game, but mistakes will cost you the game and that was the case last Sunday in Houston. If your unable to get down to the game today, you can watch it on CBS Sports beginning at 1pm ET.

Your Thoughts of The Game and Weather

Heading to the game, or attended the game, how was it? Enjoyed the weather today, or are you more into the hot steamy temperatures of August and September?

 

 

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