In Tampa Bay, the summer heat has officially dug his hot nose in the sand, and he shows no signs of slowdown.
Persistent heat days are common because summer is booming. But what was not so consistent, are the thunderstorms of the region’s afternoon.
During last week, thunderstorms went through strange moments, often overnight, lighting the midnight sky. The time of these thunderstorms comes down to small subtle changes in the atmosphere.
During the following week, warmer days are expected, as well as dispersed showers probably influenced by drier air from a massive heat dome affecting a large part of the country.
But if the end of the evening storms that can wake you up will not continue either.
Here is a ventilation of the mechanisms behind our summer heat and our thunderstorms so far.
Storm timing
It is not summer in Tampa Bay without its afternoon refreshment rains. And while the thunderstorms arose, they rumbled in unexpected hours.
As a rule, thunderstorms are driven by a few factors, such as the location of high pressure and the collision of heat and sea breeze.
“The land heats up faster than water, which makes sea breezes formed, and along these sea breezes, this is where thunderstorms start,” said Austen Flannery, Tampa Bay meteorologist of the National Weather Service.
Thunderstorms took place in the odd hours of the day, including Friday morning, when showers have sprayed a large part of Tampa Bay.
When thunderstorms occur comes down to management and strength, the wind blows.
If the winds come from the East, what has happened lately, the storms are generally formed later.
But small changes in the atmosphere led thunderstorms to occur even later than normal, said Flannery.
The western winds were lower, making them get stuck near the coast. In addition, there was a drier air, which meant that thunderstorms had trouble forming.
After sunset, the navy breeze could move inside the land, colliding with the navy breeze from the opposite coast per hour, generally after most of us went to bed.
“So, even if it was dry, it was not too dry to prevent storms from training,” said Flannery.
A heat dome sets up
An important area of high pressure on the United States is heat and humidity, leading to extreme temperatures in the Midwest Friday and weekend, and in the northeast next week.
Difficult time comes from the moisture blown to the north of the Gulf of Mexico, Jacob Asherman, a meteorologist from the meteorological prediction center, told the Associated Press.
In Florida, Where wet and warm are synonymous with summer, heat clues (a combination of heat and humidity) should reach more or about 100 degrees for several days at the start of next week.
The assistance card of the National Weather Service shows several days next week of “moderate” heat risk in Tampa Bay, with pockets in the region by seeing a “major” risk.
Typical afternoon thunderstorms act as a natural air conditioner in Tampa Bay, cooling the area during the hottest games of the day.
While the heat dome sets in, it will bring drier air in Florida and Tampa Bay, which will likely lead to fewer more dispersed storms.
Flannery said he expects that, depending on the wind instructions, that the region will continue to see thunderstorms later. But how difficult it is to pin.
“Will they be as late as what we saw last week? It will depend on the daily subtle shades,” said Flannery.
Cooling thunderstorms?
The hottest days of summer are those where no rain falls.
Although night storms are better than nothing, they don’t quite offer the same cooling effect as the afternoon storms, said Flannery.
Although rain helps reduce temperatures, it also adds a lot of humidity, which can maintain heat. Subsequent storms also mean that there is less time to cool.
“When it rains during the night, it helps to cool things, but it’s a kind of double -sides sword,” said Flannery.
“You have already missed the window to start this cooling trend earlier, and now you have all this humidity on the surface that can keep more heat.”
Over the next five days, the chances of rain in Tampa remain at least 50% per day while the summits will be in the mid-90s, slightly above normal for this period of the year.
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