With a potentially crippling snowstorm/blizzard set to affect the mid-Atlantic states today and Saturday, it would be easy to lose a local focus. However, since I am slated to give a weather talk at the Friends of Barefoot Beach Lecture Series tomorrow (Jan. 23, 2016), keeping atop of local conditions
Read DetailsSevere thunderstorms rolled through southwest Florida early this Sunday morning. Naples Airport, in the path of a severe storm, recorded wind gusts to more than 80 miles per hour around 5:30 a.m. E.S.T. I live near the storm’s path and winds easily gusted above 50 miles per hour in North
Read DetailsLast weekend, an EF-2 tornado struck Cape Coral, FL (near Fort Myers, FL). The storm produced significant damage and injured three during its nearly three and a half mile trek through Lee County. On Fri., Jan. 15, an EF-1 tornado struck parts of Lee County damaging a few buildings and
Read DetailsThe first in a series of storm systems and strong cold fronts will be affecting southwest Florida today (Jan. 15, 2015). Heavy showers and thunderstorms, a few of which may turn severe, are on the menu. While this mainly includes strong, gusty thunderstorm winds (up to 60 miles per hour),
Read DetailsSouthwest Floridians are going to have to contend with a bad hair day, this Fri, Mar. 27, 2015. Early this morning, temperatures and dew points had risen to summery morning levels. For example, at Naples Municipal Airport (APF), the 5:00 a.m. E.D.T observations showed a temperature of 77 degrees and
Read DetailsThe following appeared in an examiner article four days ago: “Much like the air mass slated to affect southwest Florida this weekend, next week’s arctic blast promises similar temperatures. Even in downtown Naples, temperatures will drop to the coldest levels of the current winter season.”…To read the entire feature, click
Read DetailsIt hasn’t been awfully cold in southwest Florida so far this winter. Frosts and freezes have basically been non-existent. However, it has been chilly. Other than a very warm period at the start of 2015, and then a mostly above average month of January…To read the entire feature, click here.
Read DetailsSouthwest Florida has had a few chilly days (and nights) in the past two months. In fact, until this week, southwest Florida has been averaging about a cold front a week for the past 8 weeks. And, according to the National Weather Service in Miami, FL, those cool downs have
Read DetailsIf you thought October and November were chilly months in Collier and Lee Counties, you were mostly right. Starting around Oct. 4, 2014, the first in a series of cold fronts pushed through southwest Florida. Then, just about every eight days another front followed (Fig, 1). In fact, for the
Read DetailsWEATHERTORIAL: The following opinions are mine alone. This weathertorial has been shared with local governmental officials in the Naples to Cape Coral area. On July 22, 2014, lightning claimed one life and injured two on a Fort Myers, FL beach. Almost immediately, cries for beach lightning detection systems surfaced and…To
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