Category: Pompano Weather

8/15/22 – Back to School Forecast (Broward)

And just like that, summer vacation is over. As many of us return to our daily school schedules here is what we can expect Tuesday.

Sunrise will be at 6:53 am with a few clouds and an possible isolated shower. Temperature will be 79°. For the afternoon, a better chance of showers and some thunderstorms, not expecting the coverage we saw today. High tomorrow will be 90°.

For the rest of the week we will see a similar pattern with the only change being a decrease in the afternoon rain chances.

Wishing everyone a successful, on-time first day!

Infrared image showing the remaining clouds from this afternoon’s showers and thunderstorms.
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4/11/21 – Severe Thunderstorm Watch Until 8PM

For those who have been outside recently you may be able to feel the air is a bit heavier than usual. We do have a Slight chance of severe weather across all of south Florida and we are currently in a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 8PM.

Current radar shows activity expanding and moving into the area. The Pompano area should begin to experience more persistent rain b about 4pm. As of this writing Severe Thunderstorm Warnings are starting be issued for activity in Palm Beach county and north.

Most of the severe weather should be out of the area by 6:30pm with rain lingering into the evening.

Follow on Twitter for updates through this afternoon and evening.

GFS Gets an Upgrade and NWS Gets Mixed Case

After a couple rough days of weather for the mid-west area some “lighter” weather news today.  First, the GFS rolled out an upgrade this morning starting with the 12Z run.  Want to know the changes?  Click here for the details.

ALSO TODAY MOST LOCAL NWS OFFICES STARTED to use mixed case in some of their text products, most notably is the Area Forecast Discussions (AFD).  The first discussion from Miami to use this format was the 7:16am forecast discussion update which looked like this:

issued 716 AM EDT WED MAY 11 2016/

AVIATION...Winds have recently decoupled at most sites,
leading to light and variable conditions across the region.
Prevailing easterly flow will be little lighter today, but still
will see east coast sites increasing to 10-15kts behind sea breeze
around 14Z-15Z. Gulf coast breeze develops and pushes inland of
KAPF after 17Z-18Z with winds becoming W-NW. A few light showers
possible on sea breezes, with a few more showers over interior
22Z-01Z with sea breeze collision. Coverage not high enough to
mention VCSH at this time with no TSRA expected. Winds become
light and variable overnight at all sites.

Note: As of 5AM this morning, NWS Area Forecast Discussions will
now be in mixed case.

/ALM

More text products will be added as the year goes on.  Still weird to see lower-case in these messages after years of ALL CAPS and minimal punctuation.

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As for the weather itself, we remain warm with slightly above normal highs and lows through the next several days with a chance of showers starting tomorrow.