Whispers of Winter & Turkey Hawk Ballet in South Florida

The image below shows us what we already know... winter is on the way. She is whispering sweet love notes to us in pumpkin and maple flavors as maple leaves fall through the air and trees go bare and snow becomes a part of the radar scene. Pink is peaking through the green and yellow and it indicates frozen forms of precipitation. Can Eggnog Lattes be far away? Maybe I'll get a Praline Mocha Latte for my birthday, which isn't so far away unless the Mayans get their way in which case I'm not getting any older...

See that cold air and several forms of cold precipitation up there? It is getting ready to down load onto us down here in the lower 48.. 

Keep watching this Jet Stream as an indication of when change is about to occur:

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/JetStream/conus.jpg

Let's take a look at the city of Buffalo, as they are slated to begin to get "lake effect snow" sooner rather than later.  As systems race down across the Lakes... they get snow the way we in Miami get a good thunderstorm in the summer as storms drift in from the Everglades. 

Note the snow falling with the temperatures at the end game and no trick snow plow on the field is going to make this year's snow go away.

Note: Find your city on the list and use it to check your regional weather.. good look around all the stats fast.

What is a bit odd about this pattern is that in Miami this week the weather is on par with many places to the north. Nice, mild weather making the natives feel that St. Nick is definitely on his way along with the other snow birds... 

Today Cloudy Hi 69 °F Tonight Mostly Cloudy Lo 63 °F Wednesday Mostly Sunny Hi 74 °F Wednesday Night Partly Cloudy Lo 58 °F Thanksgiving Day Breezy Hi 73 °F Thursday Night Mostly Clear Lo 57 °F Friday Sunny Hi 73 °F Friday Night Clear Lo 58 °F Saturday Sunny Hi 73 °F

Hazardous Weather Outlook Short Term Forecast Today: Cloudy, with a high near 69. North wind around 11 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Northwest wind around 11 mph. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. North wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Thanksgiving Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Breezy, with a north wind 14 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 57. North wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Friday: Sunny, with a high near 73. North wind 9 to 11 mph. Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 58. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 73. North wind 8 to 10 mph. Saturday Night: Clear, with a low around 60. Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 75. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 63. Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.

Not an 80 in sight anywhere and lows in the 50s. Wow. That's time to get out the cute boots and wear them with short skirts and enjoy an illusion of winter while palm fronds fritter beneath a moon lit sky. Oh my.. Sweet. One last thing on this note... on TWC they always use the term "crashing" with regard to a wave of fronts moving across the country from the NW. May I suggest... the term should be "careening" not crashing. A wave crashes onto the shore... a series of cold fronts careen westward bring cold, damp misery to people in their path not sea foam or seashells. Just saying... I'll make a prediction for the Winter Solstice here and now. Lots and lots and lots of stories on the End of Civilization as we know it because of the Mayan Calendar. You heard it here first... Snow falling in the cities on the south side of the Great Lakes. Cooler than normal temps in Miami. Cold weather across the prairie. Slow sales, a nervous stock market and talk on the Mayan Calendar. Note that is not the Dade County Courthouse where the buzzards are returning to take up their posts as I type this. When you see a Turkey Hawk in South Florida.. you know Winter has arrived and so will the other snow birds. Keep watching.. I'll be here... at least until the Mayan Calendar ends and probably way after that :) Besos Bobbi Ps... Yes Virginia.. the Egyptian Mayan theme was big in the 20s when the Miami and LA courthouse were built. A Mayan theme neighborhood in Miami out near the Tamiami Trail never got off the ground, too little too late for Mirador as they were slow to get in on the boom before the bust occurred. And, oh... yes there was a small quake in Texas last night! See...Twitter is never wrong ;) http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/11/20/small-quake-rattles-north-texas/