Temperatures are starting to rebound now off of morning lows, with temperatures now climbing into the 40's for most of southwest Florida. We started at 43 in Naples and Fort Myers this morning, but lows in most inland locations dipped into the 30's. It will not be as cold tomorrow morning with clouds moving in ahead of our next chance of rain; most of us will start in the mid to upper 40's Saturday.
You'll want to watch Lauren Casey at midday and Scott Zedeker this evening for the latest on our rain chance tomorrow. Rain looks likely now.. the tricky part of the forecast is temperatures are they'll have the latest model information for you. Remember, the track of the low will be crucial. A farther north track and we end up near 70 tomorrow.. farther south? We'll be stuck in the low to mid 60's.
By the way, what a strange major winter storm in the northeast. Take this report from the National Weather Service in NYC... reporting all of the heavy rain totals north and east of the center of low pressure and all of the snow south and west of the center of low pressure! Parts of Connecticut saw almost 3" of rain while their neighbors to the south in the New York City area saw more than two feet of snow! This was all the result of low pressure "retrograding" to the west... instead of moving to the northeast as these storms usually do. This allowed warm Atlantic Ocean air to surge inland toward southern New England north of the low, and cold Canadian air to push into NYC on the south side of the low. The unusual happenings of this winter continue!
Brian
