Jim Weber's Blog

April started off on a wet note, but ever since the weather has been fairly typical for this time of the year. Well we did have that big cool down last week, but since then we have seen a very persistent low sitting of the east coast of Georgia.

This afternoon we saw a few showers bumping up along the east coast of Florida and they have persisted into the evening. These showers have not made it into the interior of the state so our weather remains pretty much status quo. With hardly any clouds and no rain we have seen highs in Tampa in the mid 80s the last two days. This week we have been talking in our weathercast on TV about this weather pattern because with this low sitting to our east and high pressure sitting to our west it just keeps a dry northerly wind over us with a bit of an afternoon seabreeze developing to keep the coast a bit cooler. You can see this spin off the east coast and notice what clouds there are move towards the south over the gulf in this McIdas HD satellite loop. That shows a very quit pattern for us.

This pattern will stay with us for the next few days until another front moves to the eastern US....this front won't head into Florida but what it will do is help to push the lows and highs along and switch up our wind directions...that will give us a bit more moisture and may give us atleast the chance of a shower towards the weekend. You can see that in the model run out of SkyTower HD VIPIR.

On Thursday morning the winds our more out of the Northeast for us...I think the cloud cover in the model is a little overdone...but you get the idea...it will still be dry.

Then by Friday we have the front moving towards the east. It won't make it into Florida, but it helps to nudge a high of the South Carolina coast. That will give us more easterly winds which in the summer would mean afternoon storms. In April it means partly cloudy skies and maybe just enough moisture to give us a shower.