ORLANDO, Fla. – We’re very quickly settling into a beautiful weather pattern. February kicked off with record freezing temps and gloomy conditions that just made you want to stay indoors.
That’s completely flipped backwards over the last few days, and will persist today through Friday. Subtropical ridging will dominate our pattern through to Valentine’s Day, bringing Florida back from the brink and right into a pseudo springtime set up.
We’ll want to watch for small patches of morning fog, all thanks to high pressure blanketing the state. But overall, you can expect little delay or issue provided by Mother Nature for your work week.
The kids will be especially happy when they step outside to comfortable gym and recess temperatures. The jackets can be lost as soon as we approach the lunch hour, and you may want to take some extra time to enjoy the outdoors with the additional warmth we’ll see mid-day.
If you’re a theme park fan and have some extra time even after a days work to hit the attractions, I would highly encourage you do so. T-shirt and shorts weather has officially returned, and we’ll have some quality conditions to make all the memories in.
How long can you enjoy this relief from winter’s grasp?
Truthfully, this pattern is locked in for at least two weeks. The only caveat is a storm system that is making its presence known in our computer models that could cause impacts to your plans this Valentine’s weekend.
We can discuss those potential concerns in a different article.
Between now and the latter end of February, our computer models point towards this ridge pattern holding steady. Our temperatures shouldn’t come anywhere close to freezing either.
The only problem I foresee, is with this additional warmth, and the fateful beginning of the transition to spring – thunderstorms will likely become a more frequent talking point.
The threat for strong to severe thunderstorms increases as well, simply because winter may not want to depart on a quiet note despite the warmth trying to surge northward through Florida and the rest of the country.
You can look at this with a glass half empty or half full perspective considering our drought conditions are ramping up as expected with such low rainfall amounts across the area.
Lawns are brown, trees are dry, and I can truthfully admit the plants in my front yard are wilting because we’ve received little in the way of steady rain lately.