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A big time winter storm will impact the U.S. - Jan. 22 - Jan. 26) from the Southern Plains to the east coast including such major cities & airline hubs as Oklahoma City, Dallas Fort Worth, Little Rock, St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Lexington, Atlanta, Charlotte & Washington D.C. to name just a few cities... & possibly some parts of New England. A pretty severe arctic air mass will follow for much of the eastern half to two-thirds of the Lower 48.
For Jacksonville/NE Fl. & SE Ga. - (as of Wed., Jan. 21) the worst of this storm will stay north of the local area with only fringe impacts including some rain & temps. that briefly spike ahead of the front Sunday (70s) then crash again once the front moves through with some frost early Tue. & early Wed. (Jan. 27-28). So we’re going to continue the trend of generally colder temps. after an initially warm start to January.
Anyone with travel plans should check ahead on the latest forecasts & travel conditions. And realize there will likely be a ripple effect at JIA from other major hubs adversely impacted by the storm.
And we - Jacksonville - are now gaining daylight on both ends of the day - sunrise & sunset as we had been only gaining on sunrise since mid December. Reminder we “spring forward” one hour March 8th.
So what all goes into a “bad” hair day?? Well - there’s a study out (of course!) & here are the findings for Florida (credit to: https://drterziler.com/ )
Results based on:
The study included the top ten cities and CDPs with the largest populations from every state. Cities were filtered to give data for Florida only, as well as the US as a whole. A total of five factors were used to create an index score out of 100 for each location, and a weighting was assigned to each factor to reflect its importance within the analysis. The factors, their sources, and their percentage weightings are as follows:
- Average Daily Relative Humidity (%) - Source: Open-Meteo.com (22.2% weighting)
- Average Daily Shortwave Radiation (MJ/m²) - Source: Open-Meteo.com (22.2% weighting)
- Average Daily Sunshine Duration (hr) - Source: Open-Meteo.com (11.1% weighting)
- Average Daily Wind Speed (mph) - Source: Open-Meteo.com (22.2% weighting)
- Water Hardness (PPM) - Source: Aquasure.com (22.2% weighting)
