Jax Daily » Weather http://www.jaxdaily.com Local news, politics, sports, and more! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:02:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Winter arrives with a chill http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/12/21/winter-arrives-with-a-chill/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/12/21/winter-arrives-with-a-chill/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:21:05 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/12/21/winter-arrives-with-a-chill/ Winter officially began today at 7:04 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. The new season is bringing lots of cold, windy weather, as well as snow and ice to much of our nation. Here in Jacksonville, temperatures are expected to drop sharply early in the week and then we’ll see a rapid return to warmer weather by Christmas Day. Tonight’s low is 32 and tomorrow’s high is expected to be 48, with another light freeze tomorrow night.

By Christmas, the highs will be back in the upper-70’s and lows in the lower 50’s. That will be followed by a gradual cooling to more seasonally appropriate temperatures by next week.

The absolute coldest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was at Prospect Creek, Alaska, an unbelievable 80 degrees below. Among continental U.S. cities, Bismarck, North Dakota, holds the all-time record low winter temperature at 44 below zero, followed by Great Falls, Montana, just one degree warmer.

When it comes to winter precipitation records, Sault Saint Marie, Michigan, is tops with more than 117 inches. Juneau, Alaska, is next with 96 inches.

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]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/22/jaxdaily-introduces-stormtrack-2008/feed/ Power outages and storm updates http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/21/jea-power-outages/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/21/jea-power-outages/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:03 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/21/jea-power-outages/ The Jacksonville International Airport remains open, but expect many individual flights to be canceled. However as of 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, AirJTA public bus service was suspended and is not expected to resume until Friday, August 22. -> [...]]]> Many Duval County homes are currently without power, click here to view JEA’s real-time map.

Other storm-related updates…

-> The Jacksonville International Airport remains open, but expect many individual flights to be canceled. However as of 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, AirJTA public bus service was suspended and is not expected to resume until Friday, August 22.

-> Almost all area schools are closed today and it seems likely that they will be closed on Friday. Stay tuned for announcements about further school closings.

-> Pursuant to the Executive Order from the Governor and Section 4 of Executive Order 08-171, the State has granted approval to the Duval County Supervisor of Elections to suspend early voting for Wednesday, August 20th and Thursday, August 21st with the possibility of extending the suspension to include Friday, August 22nd.

]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/21/jea-power-outages/feed/ Tropical Storm Fay - Radar Loop http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/tropical-storm-fay-radar-loop/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/tropical-storm-fay-radar-loop/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:01:54 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/tropical-storm-fay-radar-loop/

]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/tropical-storm-fay-radar-loop/feed/ Jacksonville braces for the storm http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/jacksonville-braces-for-the-storm/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/jacksonville-braces-for-the-storm/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:04:31 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/jacksonville-braces-for-the-storm/ It’s looking more and more like Tropical Storm Fay will become Hurricane Fay by tomorrow and then turn around and slam into the First Coast on Thursday. The worst case scenario seems to be sustained winds of up to 80 or 90 miles per hour, perhaps gusting a bit higher.

Schools in Duval County have been ordered closed for Wednesday and Thursday, with a decision about Friday still up in the air. The City of Jacksonville has also closed all non-emergency offices and those employees are not to report to work. The mayor is encouraging everyone to make sure they have supplies to last a few days.

Keep up with the latest forecast with JaxDaily’s Weather Watch.

JEA has a real-time map that shows customers currently without power, expect to see the first mass outages starting tomorrow afternoon.

Stay safe.

]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/20/jacksonville-braces-for-the-storm/feed/ Tropical Storm Fay may stall over the First Coast later in the week http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/18/tropical-storm-fay-may-stall-over-the-first-coast-later-in-the-week/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/18/tropical-storm-fay-may-stall-over-the-first-coast-later-in-the-week/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:33:51 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/18/tropical-storm-fay-may-stall-over-the-first-coast-later-in-the-week/ It looks like Tropical Storm Fay will reach Hurricane status just before hitting land near Tampa tomorrow. Following that, the storm will slowly weaken as it travels across the state and dumps rain over most of Florida.

The new forecast at 5pm has the storm blowing into town early Wednesday and lingering for up to 48 hours as it stalls and wanders a bit before heading off to the North.

To keep up with the latest on the storm, check out JaxDaily’s new weather page!

]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/08/18/tropical-storm-fay-may-stall-over-the-first-coast-later-in-the-week/feed/ A Comfortable Couple of Days http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/05/12/a-comfortable-couple-of-days/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/05/12/a-comfortable-couple-of-days/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 17:59:53 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/05/12/a-comfortable-couple-of-days/ If you’ve got any gardening or yard work that needs to be done, now is probably a pretty good time to go for it.

The record low for tomorrow is 59 degrees, but the current forecasts on First Coast News and the Weather Channel seem to be calling for an early morning start of between 54 and 58 degrees. And the forecast high of 78 is about 5 degrees off the average for this time of year. Should be a very nice day, it’s really a shame the Film Festival doesn’t start until this weekend… when temperatures are expected to head back up into the 90’s during the day.

]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2008/05/12/a-comfortable-couple-of-days/feed/ Wet & Windy Weather Causes Problems… http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/wet-windy-weather-causes-problems-all-over-town/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/wet-windy-weather-causes-problems-all-over-town/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:57:17 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/wet-windy-weather-causes-problems-all-over-town/ Rain and flooding continue to cause problems this afternoon. There are some pretty major delays and backups on I-95 at the interchange with I-10, due to some road closures and redirection of traffic. The roads are now supposedly back open, but for a while it really disrupted things.

First Coast News is also reporting that as of about 2:30pm traffic signals were out on Beach Boulevard between Parental Home Road and Southside Boulevard, causing some significant confusion.

A quick look at JEA’s Current Outages page shows over 2,000 customers without power as of 3pm, the vast majority of which are on the Southside of town.

The wet weather is forecast to continue through much of this week…

]]> http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/wet-windy-weather-causes-problems-all-over-town/feed/ Average Temperatures Starting to Drop http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/average-temperatures-starting-to-drop/ http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/average-temperatures-starting-to-drop/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:31:43 +0000 Austin Cassidy http://www.jaxdaily.com/2007/09/17/average-temperatures-starting-to-drop/ It’s raining out right now and a lot of people are wondering when it’s going to start getting cooler already.  It’s true that we’ve had a warmer than average month so far,  but that probably won’t last for too much longer.  There’s predicted to be a slight dip in the temperature this week. 

Based on historical averages, temperatures are about to start falling in a pretty noticeable way.  For today’s date, September 17th, the average high is 84 and average low is 69.

Here are some average high and low temperatures for the next two months, broken into 10 day increments…

September 20th -  83 / 69
September 30th -  81 / 67
October 10th -  78 / 64
October 20th -  76 / 59
October 30th -  75 / 57
November 10th -  71 / 54
November 20th -  70 / 51
November 30th -  67 / 48

Source: Weather Underground

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