Thursday, February 5, 2009

Why...

I live in Florida.

Why is it 37F with a wind chill of 28F?

5 comments:

Vio Platanic said...

Thunder might be able to give you a meteorological explanation but I'm not sure that's what you're looking for here.

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Viorate.

ars said...

I know ;___; It's way too cold for Florida! Though I guess the people up north would laugh at us...

Kari said...

It's 30F this morning. Chill of 24F. I'd rather be back in PA where I have a chance of snow.

thundercloud82 said...

I won't laugh at you! ;) The people upstate would laugh at me for calling anything above 0º cold.

30º? Remind me again how warm that feels, haha. It's 12º here (-8º windchill). I'm still surprised there's more snow on the ground here then in PA...

[just in case you did want a reason for it]
Hm, well the least technical way I could explain it is that there is a very strong & persistent "trough" in the middle atmosphere over the eastern half of the US, which is allowing very cold air to come south out of Canada every time a reasonably strong storm comes by. This latest surge almost went into Cuba!

Anonymous said...

We've kind of got the opposite situation here. Single digits have been typical, then suddenly it jumps up 30-40 degrees.

It's not really a good thing, they're worried about flooding from too much melting at once + storms.