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Temperatures to dip, then climb
By JOUNICE L. NEALY © St. Petersburg Times, published January 9, 2001 Here we go again. Another cold snap that could prompt freeze warnings in the Tampa Bay area will bluster its way across the state today.
"Once we get beyond Thursday morning, we're not going to get hot, but we can put the winter coats away," said Barry Goldsmith, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Ruskin. During the cold snap, you may want to do more than bundle up. Today will be windy, with gusts up to 20 mph. The high will be in the 50s, but temperatures will feel like the 30s or 40s. Overnight lows will dip into the 30s. "It's nothing we haven't felt before. Think about what you had in late December, when the cold snap first began," Goldsmith said. On Wednesday, the weather will be more tolerable by Florida natives' standards: less wind, higher temperatures and more sunshine. The lows will be in the 40s and the high in the 60s. The northern Tampa Bay area will have less of a problem with wind chill and more problems with freezing, Goldsmith said. Some parts of Pasco, Citrus and Hernando counties could have a hard freeze by Wednesday morning, with temperatures expected to be 26 degrees or lower for more than three hours. By the end of the week, we'll be back to normal, with temperatures bouncing up to near 70 degrees on Thursday. "The air will be nice. Definitely good weather to do what people haven't been doing," he said. Forecasters say the arctic air that has been pummeling the country will be bottled up over Canada for a while, sparing us from cold snaps at least for about 10 days. "We get back into more seasonal weather," Goldsmith said. "That's what people visiting want to hear."
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