Central Florida Wildfires, Fires Continue Today
Posted by Jeff Gammons on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7:34 am
Tagged as: Florida Weather
Wildfires Rage Across Cetnral Florida on Monday
I knew it wouldn’t take long before the Florida wildfire threat would increased, as it’s been extremely dry now for weeks. The last 3-4 days have been very windy, dry, and hot, with record temperatures in the lower to mid 90’s. Last night a weak cold front moved through, only helping to lower the temps some and dry the atmosphere out even more. The last few days the strong winds have been from the west, but expected to become northerly today behind this front, so a lot of the smoke from the Brevard County wildfires near Palm Bay and Melbourne might make it into metro South Florida today.
Out Shooting Today In Hard Hit Area’s Of Central Florida
Yesterday, several homes were lost to out of control wildfires in Central east Florida. Interstate I-95 was closed. These fires continue this morning, and might flare up again once the winds return by afternoon. I’ll be up in Central Florida today covering the wildfires and some of the aftermath from yesterday firestorm that went through the residential Melbourne region.
There are other ongoing wildfires across Florida as well that need to be watched, and I’ll be monitoring these today too. I’ll have an update with video and pictures of the Florida wildfires 2008 throughout the week.


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Finally! It rained on Thursday, and I mean it rained! We had a outstanding strong pulse thunderstorm develop on the east coast and lake breeze boundaries and track northeast over much of the Lake Okeechobee region. I was actually already out shooting for another project, when I began to notice the developing towering Cumulus field. It was very hot, with temperatures in the lower 90’s. You could feel that the low-level moisture had increased, and with the 93F temps, and some good forcing, something had to give.
Hard to believe the weekend is already over. It was very hot and smokey here much of the weekend, and very stagnant. Sea breeze circulations each day helped to stir things around some and make it less hazy, but it remained hot. Both Saturday and Sunday reached to 90F here at my home, but humidity levels were low, so it didn’t feel like the normal Florida 90s. Those lower humidity levels and the continuation of very dry ground conditions make for prime brush fire weather and sure enough there was several over the weekend.
Thursday evening, a line of embedded Supercell thunderstorms tracked through the eastern parts of the central Plains states from central Oklahoma, much of eastern Kansas and northwest Iowa. Storm Chaser
Jim was not the only Chaser in the area, actually, there were dozens and dozens on this storm. My fellow chaser partner
We open the month of May with a moderate risk of severe storms and possible tornadoes over parts of the central Plains States. Eastern Kansas is looking like the start of the main show later today, and Storm Chasers from around the nation are likely converging in this area for expected Supercell storms later this afternoon and evening. May 1st normally really kicks off Plains chasing, especially for non- Plains resident chasers that fly or drive in for chase-vacation either for a week or for the entire month of May.






