Working On Somthing Fresh And New, Check It Out
Posted by weathervine on Oct 27 2008 | Tagged as: Florida Weather, Tropical Weather
Been working on a whole new theme for my blog over the last several weeks. After all the hoopla with my last web host, the lost of files, and all the security issues I had to deal with, it’s nice to have something organized once again.
This site and domain has other plans in the future and will host more of a videography topic, possibly non-weather related. So, for now, please check out the new blog at: Weatherzine.net
If you have a link to my blog, you may update it with the above address, and with visiting the new site for my daily updates. I appreciate all the support for Stormvideographer over the last 3 years. The site outgrew it’s host and old format, and now it’s time for something fresh and new. Come on over!
Jeff Gammons -
Several Florida wildfires continued on Thursday and this morning, but it’s nothing like earlier in the week. Central Florida residents continue to clean up after Mondays firestorm that raged through parts of southern Brevard County and Palm Bay. I have been sifting through several hours of
For a second day in a row, large wildfires threatened Central Florida homes along the I-95 corridor. Residents watched the fire closely as they cleaned up homes burned to the ground by the firestorm on Monday, but winds turned the fire back into the hard hit area’s on Tuesday, making it another nerve racking afternoon for local residents. I-95 was also closed for the second day this week as the wildfire jumped the interstate once again with large flames and thick black smoke. Fire crews worked hard on Tuesday to keep the fire out of several large farms and roadways, but the fire seemed to jump without any problems in the gusty winds. 
Breaking wildfire news coming out of central Florida locations this evening. Several large wildfires have closed I-95, and are threatening homes and business’s at this time. Some homes have already been overtaken by flames, as very strong winds, dry ground conditions, and low humidity’s help fuel the fires into more populated regions of Brevard County. Hundreds are being asked to evacuate, and many roads are closed due to heavy smoke. Some residents refusing to leaving and staying to fight with garden hoses, to protect their homes and property. A very dangerous situation setting up in Central Florida tonight. 
If you were luckily enough to get some of Thursdays thunderstorms, it was a great sight to see and smell. Several strong storms developed late Thursday afternoon in and around much of he Lake Okeechobee region. There was a decent amount of rainfall that even fell into the lake, helping with it’s current trend of lower water levels since April’s spike in rains. Not only did these storms bring welcomed rainfall, but some storm cells also brought very strong winds, producing some wild tropical storm like weather scenes. 
As the 2008 hurricane season fast approaches, and with all the news headlines of the extremely deadly Cyclone Nargis, in Yangon, Myanmar’s, it’s hard to ignore it’s time to begin preparing. The death toll from the Cyclone has now reach close to 100,000 people and thousands still missing. Most of the deaths are due to the 12-15 foot deadly storm surges that flooded over a extremely large area of Yangon, Myanmar’s. This is why it’s stressed each season here in the United States about, if your asked to evacuate due to living close to the water and expected landfall, you should do so as requested. 
The greater Miami-Dade and Ft Lauderdale metro area’s experienced smoke on and off much of the day on Tuesday. Prescribed ground brush burns, and some smaller brush fires smoke on the southwest region of Lake Okeechobee, spewed smoke southeastward into the metro areas of southeast Florida today. Some parts of western Palm Beach County had dense smoke at sunrise from a very still air mass, and downtown Miami was hazy much of the morning. The smoke conditions are expected to continue through much of the week, along with very warm temperatures. 
Hot, Smokey and stuffy, that sums up the weather the last 24 hours over much of central and southern Florida. Strong high pressure ridging is holding a tight cap on the atmosphere, not allowing much hot air to rise and filter out some of this wildfire smoke from the last few days. On Monday, the stretch along SR 80 in western Palm Beach County, was smoke filled, making the sky brown, with a orange sun during late afternoon as seen in this picture. It defiantly was not the best Florida day to be outside under the sun. 