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  • Easy come, easy go

    Have you ever lost a pair of sunglasses at the beach?

    Have you ever found a pair of sunglasses at the beach?

    Barnacles lead me to believe
    this pair had been lost a while
    I've done both
    (on more than one occasion.)

    ' [...]
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  • Who says Florida isn't cold?

    Tallahassee gets first
    nighttime freeze
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  • Big step down from summer

    Was the summer just that hot ...

    Or has the fall been refreshingly cool?

    November brought daytime highs in the 70s
    and nighttime lows in the 50s
    November was about as perfect as it gets in Naples. But keep in mind that great weather came at a [...]
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  • Pyramid of Florida sun

    It's orange (and Big ET)
    season on the south
    peninsula
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  • Pyramid of Florida sun

    It's orange (and Big ET)
    season on the south
    peninsula
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  • Meteorologic feast and famine

    Meteorology in south Florida is a study of extremes:

    If it isn't raining (often hard), the sun is shining (brightly).

    South Florida's water cycle
    is driven by meteorological extremes

    You can see that duality in the calendar chart below.

    It shows reports occurrence of those' [...]
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  • Big Rain Day Defined


    A Big Rain Day is any day in which all of south Florida averages one or more inches of rain across the entire south peninsula, as measured by the South Florida Water Management District. Big Rain Days are usually not uniform across the entire peninsula. For example, the [...]
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  • Chancy rain season

    Did you know 7 percent of south Florida's Big Rain Days occur in the months of November and December?

    That isn't much of a chance, but it's better than none.

    The bar chart above shows the monthly distribution of south Florida wide Big Rain Days, as tabulated' [...]
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  • High and dry ... again

    "That didn't take long"
    (i.e. for the pines to go dry)
    ' [...]
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  • No-vember Rain

    The weather's been great ...

    On the other hand, we could use some rain.

    November skies are usually dry,
    but this year takes the cake
    This November is shaping up to by the least rainiest in modern memory.  I can't say dry (and thus say least rainy instead)' [...]
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