Weather is saying get going!

-2 here this morning. Friends called last night the were going down after TG and said heck with that they are on the way. We are the only ones left :(

Why am I still here is not as easy to answer any more.

Hi Mike:

PACF1 (Panama City station datalogger) shows 42F since 5:24 AM; nice and toasty on the coast :B

Oh come on Silverand, we're in Panama City Beach and it only got down to 42 last nite/this morning (Burrrrrrr). Not to worry, we're heading further south on Tuesday. Suppose to be in the 80's by then.

Just as predicted:

Currently, ~35% of Florida are in the mid 30sF to high 30sF.

South Florida:

Just west of Lake Okeechobee in La Belle: 39F
Lehigh Acres (just a few miles east of Fort Myers): 39F

Central Florida 5 AM:

Lakeland (Winston): 39F
Zephyrhills North: 38F
Springhill: 37F
The Villages: 36F to 38F

North Florida:

Ocala International KOCF: 36F
Gainesville Regional Airport: 38F
Panacea (Piney Island): 37F (!)
Elgin AFB (Fort Walton Beach north): 37F


....jeeez; I hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come in 2 months :E Key West is going to be awfully crowded in Dec, Jan, & Feb.

If all those places will be below normal, home will be really below normal! We left Thursday!

We left early this year (August) and we are all setup for a south TX winter. Oyster season started today!!!

....you'd better be going very far south in Florida this weekend. It will be in the 30s F at least up to ~Orlando.

I've been following the ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation forecast) our 3 months (the NDF up till January), and it looks like the RGV will be solidly below normal temperatures (Florida and Georgia is predicted be near normal).

January till end of February is predicted to be below normal for Florida (all the way to the northern Keys), and all of Texas and Louisana will be substantially below normal...

If anyone would like to read the October ENSO Diagnostic Discussion (an excellent on-line paper showing how the forecast tracked with the observations), read this: here-->

I personally only subscribe to the 3 months out diagnostic (not the 4, 5 or 6 month out forcasts: an outstanding 18 hits, with only 4 misses with 3 month out for September model runs for OND, over 33 years of tracking)...

S-

Saying goodbye to the kids and grandkids this weekend, then sometime next week off we go.

Not looking forward to leaving our new place given the nice fall weather we're having. Really looking forward to sitting in the sun and doing a lot of nothing (and recouping) after the move.

We have already arrived at our winter location. Been here for 2 weeks.