Strong Cut Off Low - Back Door Cold Front (windy day...)

We had an incredible storm here last night. I mean incredible. Heavy lightning, strong winds (strongest we have had in ages) and somewhere in Weston a tornado touched down briefly. Sat with Zalmy on the porch and watched the light show until we had to batten down the hatches as the rain began to come in at a horizontal angle through the jalousies.

Woke up this morning to cool air blowing in blustery through the windows.

Another cold front. A Back Door Cold Front... swinging down through the state being whipped down here by a strong cut off low off the Carolinas... Thank you for the cool air.. night time lows back in the 60s again.

So, I am wondering just how "sub-tropicals" are different from cut off lows like this one? I'll get an answer online at hurrcity and I'll google it and eventually I'll understand it but from my point of view in a noisy house with all the venetian blinds rattling and a rare whirl sound in the wind that you only hear when the wind gusts up over 30mph... I am wonderfing if this storm will go down in the memory for strong May "cut off lows" and one beautiful, last cold front ;)

Never say last it seems... because the next one will prove you wrong.

Never say impossible as Joseph taught me once a long time ago... improbable maybe, impossible never :)
Storm Coverage Notes below... Back Door Cold Front Coverage that is.. ;)


From the TV:

Wind and Debris falling off of downtown buildings creating slow traffic on I-95 South into Miami.

Wind Advisory along the coastline, winds steady 20 to 25 mph and gusts up in the high 30s are possible.

Footage shown from Dania Beach Pier, windy, wild, grayish - green foamy waves. "the beach is not where you want to be today" (yeah, right..the beach is a block from my job, like I am not going to go sit and eat sushi and watch the waves roll in sometime today...)



From NWS:
NPWMFL

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL546 AM EDT MON MAY 7 2007

...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED ALONG THE IMMEDIATE EAST COAST TODAY...

FLZ068-072-074-080000-
/O.CON.KMFL.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-070508T0000Z/
PALM BEACH EASTERN-BROWARD METROPOLITAN-DADE METROPOLITAN-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST PALM BEACH...FORT LAUDERDALE...
MIAMI
546 AM EDT MON MAY 7 2007

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

AREAS ALONG THE IMMEDIATE ATLANTIC COAST WILL RECEIVE WINDS OF
AROUND 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 30 MPH LIKELY WITH GUST TO AROUND 45
MPH POSSIBLE. THIS WILL LIKELY LAST THROUGH THE DAY AND DECREASE
AROUND SUNSET.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE
EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...
ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.