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A night which resembled December in Montana when snow cover and clear skies allowed Utica, Montana to plummet this morning to a downright bone-chilling 11 below zero. Whilst Florida has been baking in record 90s!
Whilst Miami to Orlando experiences an extended summer with highs topping the 90s and combined with mid-summer dew points in the mid to upper 70s, it feels well over 100 across much of the Florida Penninsula we are witnessing some quite remarkable cold that’s filtered in from Canada that’s smashing records across the Rockies and Plains.
The greatest headline grabber is the stunning early Arctic Outbreak that will likely go down as one of the most severe blasts of early season cold ever to strike the Rockies for this early in October.
A normal high for Denver, CO this time of year is 69 degrees. Highs today should be heading for the upper…. 20s.! The low at DIA was a frigid 17 degrees this morning, obliterating the old record by 8 degrees. Snow combined with cold and wind has postponed tonights Game 3 baseball game.
This morning’s low dropped to 1 degree at Cut Bank after a “high” of just 19 degrees, yes and it’s only October 10th.
Across Montana and Colorado and other areas of the Rockies will see highs in some areas struggle to reach out of the 10s and lows that will drop easily into single digits as Arctic high pressure that’s built in over snow cover is acting to radiate any daytime heat back to space fast.
Widespread 20s will be the name of the game for many areas whilst 30s will keep Minneapolis shivering
Record Heat found in Florida
Written by John Kocet and Jim Andrews of Accuweather.
Folks in Florida are reading our stories about the cold and snow up North and want to know when cooler weather is coming to the South. Not right away, I’m afraid.
For all intents and purposes, it’s still summer in Florida. Just feast your eyes on these daily highs from Orlando: Tuesday 92, Wednesday 93, Thursday 95, 93 on Friday. and right back above 90 degrees on Saturday. Most of the state is being affected by this unusual heat wave. Moreover, other than slight cooling in the far north, there will be little change through the start of the week. And record highs will be at risk in central and South Florida for at least another two to three days.
To add to the summery feel is the very high humidity. Now there are those weather novices that will cite that the relative humidity in the afternoon is only 45 percent. However, If you are a student of the weather, you know that you can’t go by that. Only the dew point temperature is an accurate measurement of how much water vapor is in the air. And when the dew point is in the mid- to upper 70s, like it is now, that’s bad.
For all intents and purposes, it’s still summer in Florida. Just feast your eyes on these daily highs from Orlando: Tuesday 92, Wednesday 93, Thursday 95, 93 on Friday. and right back above 90 degrees on Saturday. Most of the state is being affected by this unusual heat wave. Moreover, other than slight cooling in the far north, there will be little change through the start of the week. And record highs will be at risk in central and South Florida for at least another two to three days.
To add to the summery feel is the very high humidity. Now there are those weather novices that will cite that the relative humidity in the afternoon is only 45 percent. However, If you are a student of the weather, you know that you can’t go by that. Only the dew point temperature is an accurate measurement of how much water vapor is in the air. And when the dew point is in the mid- to upper 70s, like it is now, that’s bad.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
>i'm sure that over such a large land mass that there will be temperatures in places that are below average, especially when an arctic air mass moves south. However, warmer days will likely average out with these cooler days to give a typical mean temperature over an extended period of time such as over 3 months.