ORLANDO, Fla. – The long stretch of 90 degree temps may come to a halt very soon for us Central Floridians.
Now granted, I’ll caveat that by saying it won’t be for too long, but some relief is relief all the same right?
Yes, there will be a push of moisture provided by what’s left of the extremely stretched out low pressure feature we highlighted this time last weekend, and an interesting feature called a “backdoor” cold front.
This doesn’t mean a cold front or a push of cool air is going to sneak in your backdoor, I promise. But it is an interesting phenomena for Central Florida, not only because of the time of year, but our location.
Backdoor fronts will typically occur in the northeastern United States, or especially the desert southwest as a result of higher terrain features and the placement of our high pressure centers helping to nudge that cooler air southward.
In our case, a cold front is on its way, but it will get lost in the sauce of heat that has remained entrenched across the south for such a long while now. Because of this, the jet stream high up in our atmosphere will rocket more eastward than southeastward.
As high pressure becomes more dominant off our Atlantic coastline, this will once again allow for the front to sag southward unimpeded. It will enter our area from the east and northeast, which is NOT typical for cold frontal passage as its coined.
That’s where the nickname “backdoor” front comes from. Florida is flat, and we have zero land barriers to our north or northwest to stop a cold front from sliding through. That’s been the rhythm since November/December of last year up until now.
Our computer models do a fantastic job of showing this occur, as high pressure helps to drive what’s left of our decaying boundary in from our east instead of the trademark reach from up in the panhandle downward.
Because of this, our afternoon sea breeze SHOULD finally have enough juice to kick back off tomorrow and especially Monday.
We’ll also get a short break from the high temps sitting somewhere in the low to mid 90s.
But don’t get too comfortable, because we’re watching as these temperatures rise back up into the 90 degree range just in time for the first of May.
