Tornado Watch until 5pm including Orange, Seminole, Volusia, and Lake counties serves a big heads up on day when most people will probably be thinking about other things than the weather...PLEASE include checking the radar here on the website as part of your plans throughout the day.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman has kept the Slight risk area for severe weather today outlined starting just to our north and including the rest of the state of Florida. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

From everything I am seeing on the models, and more importantly the timing of the cold front moving into our area...the set up today is ripe for potential severe thunderstorms that could rotate.

That means tornadoes could develope today off of thunderstorms and leave you with very little warning to seek protection with you family.

Looks like it will be quite for for several hours but check back FREQUENTLY today to look at the radar and  check for any warnings that might be issued today.

Van Fleet

This is for TOM JOHNSON...go take a look at the OHIO papers, you remember OHIO where it is really cold..guess what, they have SNOW, that is cold, this is not cold. We former Ohioans just LOVE the Florida cold, they usually don't get much before Thanksgiving but they have it now ! Everyone have a great day and enjoy the sunshine !! 

Okay today it's cold, very cold.  Although I do bundle up when it's not that cold, but when your standing outsied for a couple of hours.. you have to be bundled up.

But I do want to thank from the bottom of my heart the viewer that brought my Photog Joey and me a nice hot cup of Coffee..

He passed by around 5:45.. thank you so much sir, it was greatly appreciated.

I was so pleasantly surprised..

wednesday and thursday mornings will be our two coldest mornings so far this fall/winter.

look for wind chills in the low 30's in the metro, and as a result a wind chill advisory has been issued.

the actual temperature will be near the record low of 36 set back in 1951. i am forecasting a low of 38 pre-dawn wednesday morning.

look for a hard freeze north and west of the villages, and there are freeze warnings up in those counties.

with this cold weather the skies will be a beautiful blue, and there will not be any rain or clouds close to us for several days.

layer up and turn on the heaters!!

jim

Another strong cold front will bring below normal temperatures for the next several days..

Jackets, sweaters and extra blankets will be needed as high temperatures will only be in the 60s and overnight lows in the lower 40s..

Enjoy the cooler weather!

Looks like the entire country was cooler than usual this year.  Does that mean we're having global cooling?  If so what do we do about it?

SInce Global warming is a con and the new In thing Kumba Ya thing  for Liberal agenda 101 folks, Obama better get cracking on this:

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/

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today will be just like your sunday was...perfect weatherwise!! sunny and 77. can't get any better than that right?

however, a colder story is moving in tonight and will last a few days.

tomorrow morning it will be 49 around daybreak, and we will only see high's in the mid 60's!!

wednesday morning we may tie or break a record. i am forecsting 45 degrees for the low. you might need a couple layers at that point!!

no good rain chances in the forecast the 7 days, and even at that i am going with a 20% chance on sunday.

ENJOY!! you have waited since march for this stuff!

jim

we need the rain and mother nature will deliver. if you were thinking the sunny dry days were going to stick around...not so for a few days anyway.

rain starts to move in today and will stay with us off and on until satuday midday. sunday looks like a really nice day with highs in the upper 70's...and then REALLY nice fall weather moves in tuesday and wednesday with high's in the LOW 70's and mornings in the low to mid 50's!!

until then take your rain gear and be careful on the roads!

jim

this is amazing........enjoy .....................

Time ot break out the light jackets ;)

Weak cold front moving through Central Florida will cool us down overnight and into Sunday.

You'll need a light jacket Sun morning as temperatures will be around 60°.

Expect lots of sun and breezy conditions Sunday afternoon with afternoon high ranging from 77-80°

Enjoy!

I'm not sure, but I think I may have "outrun"
a tornado Thursday. At 5:23pm, I was on Minnesota Ave, almost to Kepler Rd, and it started hailing like crazy. The wind felt like it was going to turn my truck OVER! I looked in my side-rear-view mirror, and the sky
was an ugly purplish black, with an odd yellow tinge. As I approached Kepler Rd, rain and hail started  hammering the ground and lightning was striking all around. I high-tailed it to Lake Helen, but I couldn't get away from it. When I pulled into my driveway, my massive oak trees were bending in every direction, and when I got out of my truck to run inside, I could hear a low, hissing whistle. It was an eerily familiar sound, from when the tornadoes struck Daytona Beach C.C. down the road back in January of '07. We had limbs down, but no other "evidence" around Lake Helen or DeLand of a tornado actually "touching down." THANK THE LORD!

Long before a severe storm approaches, dogs can be seen pacing, panting and acting in an agitated way—even though skies are perfectly sunny. Is it possible that he has a sixth sense when it comes to predicting storms? Or is there a scientific explanation? While no one can be 100% certain, it's likely that some dogs know a storm is brewing because they hear it, smell it, even feel it, long before we do.

With their keen ears, canines can hear at much higher and lower frequencies than we do. A dog can hear a faraway rumble of thunder that you might miss. In addition, a dog's nose is so sensitive, it can detect odors a billion times better than humans. Yes, a billion! Since lightning ionizes air with the formation of ozone—which has a characteristic metallic smell—it's possible that dogs detect this odor, or some other odor, associated with the storm.

Dogs are also more attuned to changes in barometric pressure than humans. A drop in pressure signals that conditions may be right for a storm to develop. So a dog may learn to associate the feeling of a pressure drop with the arrival of a storm.

Some researchers even contend that dogs can sense the vibrations caused by thunder through their feet in much the same way that Native Americans would put an ear to the ground to listen for the distant rumbling of herds or tribes approaching. It is not inconceivable that dogs are able to pick up vibrations through their feet and limbs.

While it's fascinating to think our canine friends could have telepathic powers, science can find no evidence to prove that. But anyone who has spent time with a dog knows that they have extra-perceptive senses of touch, hearing, and smell.

This is a Fact, you can watch insects too... Ants will build up the sides of their Mounts before Big Rains,,,,

oh yeah...more storms later today. around a 60% - 70% chance of thunderstorms mainly moving into the mid-afternoon and evening hours, only spotty morning showers can be expected today.

the weekend will still see arounr 40% both days in the middle of the afternoon. high temps will be in the mid 80's.

jim

We'll go mostly cloudy skies on Monday with a good chance for scattered showers/storms starting around Noon. With the clouds the high temps will be kept around 86. There will likely be showers around during your drive home..  don't forget the umbrella!

Hope you had a great weekend!

GORGEOUS stuff the next three days.....

High temps will generally stay in the upper 80s. Overnight lows will fall back into the mid 60s tonight and lower 60s on Friday morning.

Enjoy the sunshine and lower humidities ;)

we are starting with a lot of the light scattered showers this morning. this is because of low pressure coming in from the gulf and yucatan. it will likely be with us all day today so rain gear will be needed throughout the day.

most of the morning showers will be just light and not that heavy, but a few showers will bring brief heavy rainfall for the morning commute.

rain coverage comes way down for wednesday - friday. however the upcoming weekend looks like rain chances will be back up to around 50% - 60%.

sub tropical storm "laura" is still out there and moving northward so it is not a threat to the us coastlines.

t-storms should start to fire up here shortly and covera good part of central florida. i am forecating around a 50% - 60% coverage once we do see them get going.

sub-tropical storm "laura" is out there in the northern atlantic and forecasted to stay in the north right now. we do not expect it to turn southward at this time.

kyle also still churning away will keep ripping up in the north atlantic and be gone from nova scotia here shortly.

tuesday will bring another round of thunderstorms and then we should see much lower rain coverage from wednesday through friday.

jim

Plan on a nice weekend with Mostly sunny skies...Highs will range from 86-89..Humidities will remain low through Sunday..

Get outside and enjoy this nice weather ;)

Have a great weekend!

first the forecast...

muggy, cloudy day with a high rain coverage. 60% of the area will see thunderstorms mainly in the afternoon and early evening hours. some of you will see mid-morning and midday thunderstorms as the atmosphere heats up.

rain chances come way down and even the high temperatures will drop to mid 80's by the middle of the week and stay there through the upcoming weekend.

now the fun....

thank you to everyone who came out to support the florida sheriff's youth ranches at sheriff ben johnson's battle of the badges this weekend in new smryna beach. my band had a wonderful time playing there again this year, and i had a great time fishing again with the sheriff.

check out my new profile pic and that is one of the two monster redfish we caught saturday. mine was a 20 lb red, and the sheriff caught a 24 lb red.

if you want to catch fish like that then call my friend captain dennis cox at 386-299-7675. for two years in a row he has had us pull out 20 lb reds in two completely different locations. this captain will get you on the fish!!

have a great week!

jim