Florida Low Forms in GOM... Crosses Florida & Rides the Coast. Too Early for Snow but....Cute System for December! Winter Solstice Soon... Let's Flip the Switch to Snow!

 

This is a Low pressure system that crosses Florida.

It is not considered tropical but it's tropical like.

Forming down in the Gulf of Mexico ...

...aiming at the Big Bend of Florida.

Like some many others in any season....

..then riding up the coast.

Coastal Low!

Depending on which model you look at this has a chance of exploding at a high latitude, but that's far out and once this does spin up it becomes a fast mover for Florida and the SE Coast where people will watch it depending on how close to the coast it lingers.

The result is of course RAIN.

Rain in late December in Florida.

And along the areas closest to the coast.

Comes together around here... see above.

Wraps up as shown below.

Then exits and slides up the coast fast.

This happens often before cold temperatures work their way down into the still very warm Gulf of Mexico and we watch for rain events vs snow or ice as we have not yet really had a strong, long visit by any sort of  Arctic weather yet in the South. We will have a brief visitation that feels more like it's flirting and then it retreats back where it belongs and people complain it's too warm for December.

I've lived in this neck of the woods for 13 years now and every, single Winter people get excited when the first freezing front brandishing cold spears of wintry air are flung this way and then they go back to where they came from fast and it warms up in December. People complain that it's too warm but since I have lived here, with the exception of the Crazy Winter of the Polar Vortex when it literally snowed everywhere even here .......this is why people move to Raleigh. You get the taste of the seasons without having to worry you will have to dig your car out of the snow in the morning. And, if we get a normal Raleigh snowfall the snow covers the car and by mid day it begins to melt away.  In any given year something can go wrong and Mother Nature plays a trick on us and we get Snowmaggedon! This year is a La Nina year and it is not the friend of snow lovers here but many in Raleigh hope never to see this mess ever again. Obviously not me!

Actually going on 8 years ago now.

This was February 2021.

Again we get snow in January and February

Winter begins December 21st!

Til then we have rain. 

And wishes for snow.

(except by those who moved here to ...

...escape the snow)

Who are you?

The Snow Wisher....

...the Snow Warrior?

Or are you a snowbird??

If that storm plays out....

...it'll be a Winter Solstic Storm.

The solstice often has a storm somewhere.

Enjoy the day......

... shop, play or watch football!

I'll be back another day.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter

Ps I'm not proofing this because I have a bad headache. No not a Covid Headache lol just a "weather change, barometric pressure headache" we started off in the high 60s and the temperature plunges this afternoon (so they say) to the low 40s!  If you want snow........ go watch some on YouTube. Gentel music and nonstop snow! Voila!!