Florida State Watch Office Morning Situation Report
EOC Activation Level: Level 2
EOC Activation Level: Level 2
Meteorological Summary:
- Dense Fog Advisories remain in effect until the mid-to-late morning hours as reduced visibility of ¼ of a mile or less is possible across the West Coast and much of South Florida.
- A line of scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms along a strong cold front is currently moving across the lower Suwannee Valley and into the northern Peninsula, and will continue to move through the Peninsula throughout the day (75-95% chance of rain).
- The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is outlooking a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) for Severe Weather as any of these strong to severe thunderstorms will be capable of producing frequent lightning, damaging wind gusts (50-60 mph), a brief tornado or two and heavy downpours through the morning and afternoon hours.
- Breezy wind gusts of 15-25 mph can be expected to develop statewide throughout the day, with stronger wind gusts upwards of 30-40 mph along East-Central Florida and portions of Treasure Coast (Wind Advisory).
- High temperatures in the 50s and 60s have likely been reached across much of the Panhandle and Big Bend, and will likely be reached within the next couple of hours across the rest of North Florida as much colder air will begin to race in behind the cold front.
- The rest of the state will see high temperatures this afternoon reach the upper 60s to middle 70s across Central Florida and upper 70s to middle 80s across South Florida.
- Isolated to widely scattered showers and embedded thunderstorms will continue this evening and into the overnight hours across South Florida and the Keys as the cold front continues to push southward (20-45% chance of rain).
- Very cold air will bring low temperatures into the 20s across North Florida overnight, with the lower Suwannee Valley and northern Peninsula seeing low temperatures in the low to middle 30s.
- Freeze Warnings have been issued for portions of the Panhandle for temperatures as low as 24-degrees, creating hard freeze conditions, and Northeast Florida as temperatures as low as 31-degrees are expected.
- Elevated winds are going to make temperatures feel much colder than they are across North Florida and towards the I-4 corridor early Monday morning, and Cold Weather Advisories (Wind Chill Advisories) have been issued throughout the Panhandle and Big Bend.
- Feels-like temperatures, or wind chills, will fall into the middle to upper 10s across the Panhandle, low 20s throughout the Big Bend and Northeast Florida, middle to upper 20s throughout Nature Coast and the northern Peninsula and low to middle 30s just north of and along the I-4 corridor.
- Breezy northwesterly winds and elevated surf of 3-5′ will create a moderate to high risk for rip currents along all Panhandle and West Coast beaches. A low risk extends along all East Coast beaches.
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