Though Florida is known as the Sunshine State, it could also qualify as the “Hot State.” Each summer, millions of residents and tourists enjoy the warm weather and sunny beaches, but most are unaware of just how hot it can get in Florida. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the state is always influenced by tropical moisture, especially in the summer.
The Hottest State
Triple-digit temperatures are not as common as one might think in Florida. For example, Jacksonville only averages one per year, whereas the mercury climbs above 100° an average of 16 times in Dallas, a city roughly about the same distance from the equator. However, during the span of an entire year, Florida is the warmest state in the U.S.
The moderating influences of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico play a role in keeping daytime temperatures in check during the summer. Sea breeze boundaries, acting as miniature cold fronts, work their way inland and provide relief in the way of afternoon thunderstorms or cloud cover. This is why temperatures are often much warmer over inland areas where that cooler ocean air is delayed, or sometimes never makes it.
Conversely, the presence of a wind off the water at night, can lead to extremely warm overnight low temperatures. In some cases, immediately near the water, the mercury will never fall below 80° in the summer months. Water heats and cools at a much slower pace than land, which explains the opposing trends.
Florida’s humidity, to no surprise of many, is the real factor. It can sometimes add more than ten degrees to what your body feels. This is important, because the apparent temperature is what your body is forced to fight when it gets overheated.
Massive 72² mile Lake George in Northeast Florida is virtually unnavigable today due to very low water levels. Here Channel Marker 17 guides boaters through the St. Johns River Channel in Lake George near Astor. The water depth around the channel marker is less than 3-feet.
Anatomy of a Typical Florida Heat Wave
Typically, the semi-permanent Bermuda High Pressure Ridge builds over the Florida peninsula causing subsidence of the hot airmass (and precluding cloud formation and precipitation). The high pressure also interferes with the formation of sea breeze fronts that might bring relief to the state with afternoon rains.
In recent years the Bermuda High has been stronger, longer lasting and more disruptive of Florida weather patterns leaving the state hot and very dry.
What Is A Heat Wave?
A heat wave is an extended time interval of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather. To be a "heat wave" such a period should last at least one day, but conventionally it lasts from several days to several weeks. In 2017 it has lasted most of the year starting in January. This has been the most abnormally hot and dry (but humid) year since the Dust Bowl.
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What Is The Heat Index?
The heat index is the "APPARENT TEMPERATURE" that describes the combined effect of high air temperature and high humidity. The higher this combination, the more difficult it is for the body to cool itself. If you work outdoors, it is critical that you remain aware of the heat index and take the appropriate precautions. The heat index has been consistently in the ORANGE or DANGER Zone for weeks.
Memorial Day Weekend the temperatures are forecast to be near 100° with high relative humidities (in the 70% range) making the heat index average around 134° in the late afternoons.
What Actions Should You Take To Be Prepared?
NEVER LEAVE CHILDREN OR PETS IN A PARKED CAR
The temperature can raise to 135 degrees in less than ten minutes, which can cause death to children or pets. If you see a child or pet left unattended in a parked car, you should call 9-1-1 and alert authorities.
SLOW DOWN
Strenuous activities should be reduced, eliminated, or rescheduled to the coolest time of the day. Individuals at risk should stay in the coolest available place, not necessarily indoors.
DRESS FOR SUMMER
Lightweight, light-colored clothing reflects heat and sunlight, and helps your body maintain normal temperatures.
DRINK PLENTY OF WATER
Your body needs water to keep cool. Drink plenty of fluids even if you don't feel thirsty. Persons who (1) have epilepsy or heart, kidney, or liver disease, (2) are on fluid restrictive diets, or (3) have a problem with fluid retention should consult a physician before increasing their consumption of fluids.
DON'T DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
DON'T TAKE SALT TABLETS UNLESS SPECIFIED BY A PHYSICIAN
Persons on salt restrictive diets should consult a physician before increasing their salt intake.
STAY IN THE AC
Air conditioning in homes and other buildings markedly reduces danger from the heat. If you cannot afford an air conditioner, spending some time each day (during hot weather) in an air conditioned environment affords some protection.
AVOID THE SUN
Sunburn makes the job of heat dissipation that much more difficult.
Where Can You Go For Up-To-Date Info?
Temperature Outlook Map for June-August 2017
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At some point, I suspect, members of the Trump team gained knowledge of Russian hacking into Clinton emails, which would explain why Trump friend Roger Stone tweeted things like, "Trust me, it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel.”
This kind of soft collusion, evolving over the course of the campaign without a clear quid pro quo, might also explain why there weren’t greater efforts to hide the Trump team’s ties to Russia, or to camouflage its softening of the Republican Party platform position toward Moscow.
One crucial unknown: Did Russia try to funnel money into Trump’s campaign coffers? In European elections, Russia has regularly tried to influence results by providing secret funds. I’m sure the F.B.I. is looking into whether there were suspicious financial transfers.
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- obnoxious or contemptible behavior.
"no one gets away with that much douchebaggery without consequences"
Fawning over autocratic Arabs while lecturing (and shoving) European allies is only the latest embarrassing episode of this ill-fated "presidency."
The easy-listening white supremacists who surged out of the shadows during the presidential campaign are no less dangerous than their white power survivalist or raving skinhead counterparts. But they are hoping to rebrand themselves by wearing business clothes and attempting to sound reasonable as they advance a racist agenda. The debate about removing monuments to white supremacy that were built throughout the South a century or more ago is tailor-made for this tactic.
The white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va., this month over a plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, shows how this is likely to go. The marchers feigned civility. But a closer look shows that the protest drew on the toxic symbolism of the Third Reich in ways that few Americans would recognize.
By wielding torches in a protest staged by night, the demonstrators nodded to Nazi rallies held during the 1930s at Nuremberg, where the open flame was revered as a mystical means of purifying the Aryan spirit. They reinforced this toxic connection by chanting “blood and soil,” a Nazi-era slogan that connected German ethnic purity to cultivation of the land and, more broadly, to the notion that the “master race” was divinely entitled to confiscate the holdings of “lesser peoples,” even if it meant slaughtering them along the way.
The conservative mind, in some very visible cases, has become diseased. The movement has been seized by a kind of discrediting madness, in which conspiracy delusions figure prominently. Institutions and individuals that once served an important ideological role, providing a balance to media bias, are discrediting themselves in crucial ways. With the blessings of a president, they have abandoned the normal constraints of reason and compassion. They have allowed political polarization to reach their hearts, and harden them. They have allowed polarization to dominate their minds, and empty them.
Conspiracy theories often involve a kind of dehumanization. Human tragedy is made secondary — something to be exploited rather than mourned. The narrative of conspiracy takes precedence over the meaning of a life and the suffering of a family. A human being is made into an ideological prop and used on someone else’s stage.
A conspiratorial approach to politics is fully consistent with other forms of dehumanization — of migrants, refugees and “the other” more generally. Men and women are reduced to types and presented as threats. They also become props in an ideological drama. They are presented as representatives of a plot involving invasion and infiltration, rather than being viewed as individuals seeking opportunity or fleeing oppression and violence. This also involves callousness, cruelty and conspiracy thinking.
In Trump’s political world, this project of dehumanization is far along. The future of conservatism now depends on its capacity for revulsion. And it is not at all clear whether this capacity still exists.
As the Trump White House works to sell its budget proposal, which was released today, there’s a revealing ideological argument emerging to justify the absolutely brutal cuts to social programs that the budget includes. Americans, the administration is saying, come in two types: the deserving and the undeserving, the taxpayers and the moochers.
You don’t have to worry about the way we’re eviscerating so many programs, because we’re only going after those people. It’s based on a fundamental lie: that there are taxpayers and then there are people who use social programs, and the two are not only not the same people, the groups don’t even overlap.
Trump took great pains to distinguish himself from Paul Ryan and limited-government Republicans by vowing no cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, staking out an ideologically heterodox posture that likely helped boost him among working-class white voters. Obviously, that’s no longer operative.
The White House has an explanation for Trump’s reversal on Medicaid. Asked by John Harwood to explain the flip, budget director Mick Mulvaney claimed the promise was supplanted by Trump’s promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. This is nonsense: As Brian Beutler explains, Mulvaney “layered a lie of his own on top of Trump’s,” because Trump’s budget cuts to Medicaid “go hundreds of billions of dollars beyond phasing out Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.”
I’d go further still: There are numerous Trump lies being forced out into the open right now. Trump claimed he would not touch Medicaid and simultaneously that he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something better for all. It was a lie for Trump to claim he wouldn’t touch Medicaid; it was a lie to suggest preserving Medicaid and repealing Obamacare were compatible; it was a lie to claim that his repeal-and-replace plan would result in better coverage for everybody. If anything, the White House’s justifications only throw the scale and audacity of these intertwined scams, lies and betrayals into even sharper relief.
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