Winter Whispers Hello Up North, Rain and Severe Weather In Miami

Still raining in South Florida.

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Metro.aspx?region=mia

You know it's funny. When you look at the satellite image we seem to be on the edge of the rain. When you look at the radar, it l oops like it will never go away.

The power was sketchy on Saturday, it flickered a lot and for some neighbors down the block it was off. FPL trucks were in the area all day doing work. But, in general it was a nice rainy day. I sat outside on the covered, screened patio with a cup of Nespresso and a few cookies watching the rain fall. Listening to it. Loud, steady, heavy drops in a never ending flood of rain. Nothing more, though the skies for a while were purple and there were a lot of funky, cloud debris sort of fake funnel clouds. Not really funnel clouds but some definite circulation going on just above the surface.

In New York, where some of my kids live....they got snow. Really snow. A lot more snow than they figured on. My youngest daughter saw snow flakes falling for the first time. Heaviest snow fall in some parts in history, or at least since they've been keeping track. The snowfall during the Civil War is not recorded with the records. New England got snow...sorry about that. Winters here or rather there.

In Miami the Fins lost again . . . .

There was a Tornado Warning down in Kendall, but nothing here. This is what our local weather warnings look like:

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
855 PM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SOUTH MIAMI...KENDALL...

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT

* AT 853 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PERRINE...
MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
PERRINE...
PINECREST...
AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Maybe tomorrow this frontal boundary will clear out. It definitely did NOT make it down to Cuba.

Nothing else is new, everything is status quo. No news is good news?

It was a blustery, beautiful day as we walked around getting some fresh air and dodging the raindrops.

Down by the Yucatan there is some rain but I am not going to even look at it tonight. The NHC says "nothing doing" and I'll go with that.

So, button up that overcoat if you live in Upstate New York or New England because winter has whispered hello this weekend.

Sweet Tropical Dreams...and remember tomorrow is a brand new day ;)

Bobbi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pEOUbr9yo