Looks like we might have one more shot at open-window weather before sultry summer conditions settle in for good.
Usually this time of the year when a visitor asks: “When do you think it will cool off?” The answer is: “Sometime next October.”
However, a surprise cold snap may be waiting in the wings to usher April out. Shorter-term, next weekend may be a repeat of the previous one, with another cold front swinging down to the Lake Okeechobee area and stalling out. That usually means rain showers and thunderstorms moving to the coast from the southwest, as they did Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
But the following weekend of April 26-28, according to AccuWeather, Palm Beach could get a very unusual late-April cold snap that drives temperatures down into the mid-50s for lows, and only low 70s for highs. Forecasters are predicting a low of 50 in Belle Glade, and upper 40s north and west of Lake Okeechobee.
That prediction is backed up by the National Weather Service’s long-range forecast for April 22-28, which shows significantly below normal temperatures for the Florida peninsula, and in particular north-central Florida. The record low in Orlando on April 29 is 42 degrees (1928), so it can get quite cool in some places right through the end of the month.
Records for those dates are in the low-50s along the southeast coast; the low 40s inland.
Of course, forecasts this far out are dicey, and computer models that show a front making it through South Florida today could change their tune — as they often do.
So far, with half of April in the books, the weather has been almost the mirror opposite of March. Last month was unusually cold and dry, while April is running more than 3 degrees above average and we’ve logged about half of our normal monthly rainfall total.
http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/weathermatters/category/cold-fronts/
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