Daily Sunrises
Feb 18th, 2010 by jeb
March 09 2010 - A cloudy morning, but warmer, 61 degrees, going up to mid 70's today...
March 08 2010 - Finally, a less frigid morning, all the way up to about 55 at daybreak, tolerable...
March 07 2010. No video today, not bad at 50 degrees but we slept in after a rare late night. Tomoro should see us back on track...
March 06 2010. No sunrise video again this morning. Although the temp at daybreak was all the way up to about 50, and there was only a slight breeze at around 5 mph, it felt a lot colder than that for some reason, maybe the humidity or lack of it or the dew point, it just felt way too cold to get out to the beach. And, the sky was crystal clear, not a very video-genic sky, so we decided that tomoro finally looks like things will be more back to normal. Altho the mornings have been way too cold, the sunshine is getting rather intense in warmth, hot actually if we can get out of the breeze, good weather to soak up some vitamin D and catch a little nap. Spring is only two weeks away, and it is beginning to feel like it here, during the day anyway, with honey bees buzzing about the foliage, birds singing their songs and foraging around in the grass for snacks, geckos sunning themselves, little bitty puffs of cottony seeds floating along on the gentle cool breezes, and even a few of those green "June bugs" trying to thaw out. We are ready for that good time of year here, after a very disappointing winter season that brought "historic" cold, rain, wind, and flooding -- hopefully this strong cold El Nino will be replaced with a gentle warm but always tempermental La Nina that doesn't stir up any hurricanes...
March 05 2010. Too cold for a sunrise video again, low temp down to 44 tying the all time record for the date, with winds over 10 mph, resulting in "feels like" conditions down into the 30's, a.k.a. freezing. They say that we are going to finally start to see a warm-up today from this nearly 20 degrees below normal cold spell. TWC announced that this has been the second coldest winter on record for south Florida -- the coldest must have been at the end of that last ice age. Hopefully, we will be back in the sunrise video business tomoro morning, sorry for the temporary lapse, we are well acclimated to heat down here, but we wimp out in cold weather -- we did encounter some snowbird tourists yesterday clad in only shorts and tshirts, happy with this sunny summer-like weather...
March 04 2010. It appears that we did not experience the predicted record low temp of 42 degrees this morning, as it was more like the upper 40's here on the edge of the Atlantic. But, with winds of from 12 to 16 mph, the "feels like" was likely down into the low 40's, and as predicted we opted-out of getting out there to capture a sunrise video today. Hope to get back out there tomoro morning, altho they are yet again predicting a record low of 43, so that's a long shot...
March 03 2010. Cloudy, cold, and very windy this morning, so we did not even get out to attempt to capture a sunrise video today. Temp was 55 but winds were gusting into upper 20's and the clouds were not favorable so we chose to stay under the covers and sleep in. Tomorrow may be yet another opt-out as the weather prognosticators are forecasting record cold down into the lower 40's, but if the color is there and if it's not windy we may get the wimpy video guy to run out for a quick video...
March 02 2010 - Nice at sunrise, but storms and wind moving in later today...
March 01 2010 - Spring is just around the corner. Isn't it? Cool today...
February 21 2010 - Temp at 59 at sunrise, light breeze, almost warm, up to 76 today...
Valentines Day 2010 - A chilly morning, 44 degrees, "feels like" is 40-ish...
February 13 2010
Yet another cold front has moved in after last night's severe storms, producing yet another chilly morning, about 50 degrees at sunrise with a "feels like" temp in lower 40's due to stiff breezes. Looking forward to a sunny day with warmer temps up to about 70...
February 02 2010 - Groundhogs Day Verdict, 6 more weeks of "winter weather", somewhere...
Finally, some normalcy in the weather. Overcast skies, rain, wind have departed, back to the calm, sunny, warm, dry season stuff.
February 01 2010 - A Rainy, Blustery Groundhogs Day Eve...
The local weather frognostigators are talking up some kind of "never before heard of" storm system moving in from the Gulf of Illegals, the likes of which we previously had only experienced here in the summer months. Result is that the rains and storms that set in late yesterday continue this morning and will supposedly rain on into the evening hours. After a highly unusual day yesterday where we did not see any sunshine at all, especially rare for this time of year, the snowbird tourists are starting to groan and grumble, until they check out the weather "back home", where it ain't all that great there either.
January 31 2010 - Pro Bowl Sunday at nearby Sun Life stadium, gettin ready for Super Bowl...
Weather continues to be murky with clouds, off and on sunshine predicted later, fairly warm about 70 at sunrise but not supposed to get a lot warmer today, may be some showers with thunder later but nothing serious, bad storms did not get this far south with this latest frontal system. As January fades away, we have to note that this month has not been the usual nice weather of past years, but then it has been pretty lousy everywhere, likely due to the El Nino effect.
Looking back at the archive videos for January of last year (link to first half of Jan 09) (link to second half of Jan 09), there were zero days with "murky" sunrises like today, and there were only two sunrises that were mostly cloudy. Compare that with seven murky cloud-outs this January, with a couple more sunrises where fronts were moving in to produce cloudy mornings, along with several more that were mostly cloudy, including a rain-out. The local chamber of commerce bobble-heads would like us to point out that all of this cold cloudy weather is way out of the ordinary for "the sunshine state"...
January 30 2010 - Breezy, warm, humid at sunrise, chance of showers later today with high temps...
TIP: Today, Saturday, January 30th will see the brightest full moon of 2010, and as a bonus in the eastern sky, the planet Mars will be hovering to the right of the full moon as a bright star with a reddish tint also at it's close-igee orbit, with Sirius to the right of Mars. Be sure to get out and howl at the bright full moon, reddish Mars, and the always weirdly colorful Sirius (we wonder if those reds and greens and blues are from neon signs on Sirius, seriously)...
January 29 2010 - As with the last two sunsets, sunrise was very similar to yesterday...
January 28 2010
At sunrise the temp was 68, headed up into the mid 70's today, mostly sunny, warming up further into the weekend but with chances of showers...
January 26 2010
A cold front moved in overnight, displacing the clouds with a clear cold sky, temperature dropped 26 degrees from yesterday morning, probably back down to the "near record" cold level again. Anyway, supposed to warm up to the lower 70's with bright sunshine, so it will be a cheery day to get out and about and finally get some vitamin D and exercise.
January 21 2010
A warm front has rolled in overnight, temps up to 74 degrees at sunrise, almost a 20 degree jump from yesterday morning, but with the warmth comes the strong southerly breezes out of the Caribbean, and predictions of near record heat today and for the upcoming week or so. Recent patterns: record prolonged heat, record prolonged "historic" cold, now record heat again...
January 20 2010 - Still cool at 55 degrees, with a nice brisk sunny day ahead...
January 16 2010 - Warm but Windy...
At sunrise, about 73 degrees, very windy. Supposed to get up into upper 70s today and continue warmup thru the weekend. What a welcome change from the two week historic deep freeze, back to normal finally -- actually the temps today and for the next week or so are predicted to be above normal, but that is good...
January 15 2010 - Historic "deep freeze" cold spell officially over!!!
At sunrise, about 70 degrees, windy, but it was finally fairly comfortable. Supposed to get up to 75 today and continue warmup thru the weekend. Time to get out and enjoy, get in some badly missed workouts, shake off the stir crazy cabin fever cooped up feeling from the two week long cold spell...
January 9 2010 - Raining Reptiles...
On day 9 of our relentless cold snap, we not only have incessant rain this morning, but we also have iguanas and geckos falling out of trees -- when they get too cold, they "freeze up" with hypothermia, loose control, and watch out below, plop! Lizard soup for lunch. Temps about 46 at sunrise, but it is no longer a dry cold and is now a wet cold, and the effect is much more biting. No sunshine today, supposed to rain constantly, and temps to fall to freezing overnight. What a year so far, way out of the ordinary from normal winter weather here. Just kidding about the lizard soup, but FYI, the green iguana is referred to as "pollo del arbol" by locals, which means "chicken of the tree" and is said to be quite tasty along with having the same virility effect as oysters. Not that WE need that...
January 7 2010 - Take 1 of 3
Day 7 of prolonged "Deeeep Freeeeze", temp at sunrise was 42-ish, slight breeze, with freeze advisory lifted, but wind chill advisory remains in effect this morning, along with fire alert due to low humidity. They say that we will experience a heat wave of sorts here today up into the mid 60's and then continue with a slight upward trend into the weekend. Bout time, might be able to stand the cold to get out and exercise today, been sedentary for several days now, getting out of shape. We are remembering fondly the record heat wave that we experienced just last month, only a couple of weeks ago, what a change...
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January 3 2010 - Take one of two before sunrise...
Wind Chill Advisory until 10 a.m. this morning, temperature was about 45 degrees with slight breeze, skin-numbing cold, not quite bone-numbing, high is supposed to be only about 65 today, sunny but chilly, not bad but not great...
.As '09 comes to a close, we have posted our observations of the region with a "year in review" summary. If interested in perusing what we feel were significant events here locally, just click on this link.
December 21st, 2009 - The Winter Solstice
Low temps this morning about 52 in the region, high temps today to reach only the upper 60's -- feels like the first day of winter here, but the days start getting longer now, more sunshine, more warmth, up to around 80 by the holiday weekend. We will point out that altho the clouds in the above video may give the impression that later in the sunrise would have been more colorful, but this was as good as it got, the color quickly faded from this point on, and the sun came up hidden behind thick clouds (see next video below for second take at official time of sunrise).
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December 20th, 2009
A chilly morning here, temps down into the mid 50's, but the wind chill wasn't too bad, so it was tolerable for a walk on the beach. Today and tomoro we are supposed to see temps about ten degrees below average, a quick turnaround from the previous ten degrees above average. Better than the "blizzard of '09" up north though...
December 19th, 2009 - After the storms...
The two day storms that brought over a foot of rain, flooding, tropical storm wind gusts, and even a tornado have been pushed out of the area by a cool front, dropping temps from near record warmth down into the mid sixties, with prognositcations of the low temps in the mid fifties for tomoro morning, followed by low temps down into the 40's on Monday. No happy medium, no time to adjust to the cold -- altho, with the snow storms and wind chills up north, we shall not complain, too much.
December 18th, 2009 - Wiiiindy...
Our latest summer like heat wave ended yesterday evening when strong tropical storm like weather rolled in off of the Atlantic, bringing fourteen inches of rain, blown horizontally by strong winds, with thunder and lightning. Actually felt very spring like as it was still somewhat warm last night. Although the morning brought a short reprieve in the rains, the winds were still very strong, and the severe storms are supposed to pick back up again this afternoon. Very atypical weather for December here, it's normally very nice, although sometimes windy. If you caught the news today, you likely saw reports from our area of the flooding and wind damage...
December 7th, 2009 - Sunrise Photo Shoot...
Photo shoots on the beach are a common daily sight, sometimes we run across several per day if we are out and about much -- on a few occasions we have encountered total nudity (mostly classy personal stuff, with some "Playboy" material but still artsy)...
December 1st, 2009
December arrives. The final month of '09. The final month of the 00' decade (aka the "Oh Oh!" decade). The final month of the decade that has already had some fairly negative adjectives prefixed to it. Some bad hurricanes and natural disasters. Economic disasters and financial swindles. 911. Bushwacked. Terrorism. Wars. Global warming. On and on to ad nauseum. But, like all bad times, they are usually looked back upon as the good times because of what good did manage to transpire, positivity, fond remembrances, "the good old days" of being younger ("I remember back in '08 when...") -- let's all endeavor to ensure that the future being worse is not one of the reasons that the initial decade of this century is eventually viewed in a nostalgic manner (we know that the official technical calendar end of the decade is actually at the end of this year, we are referring to the logical decade, years with 0x in them).
November 30th, 2009
On the last official day of hurricane season, we are happy to report that our area not only was not subjected to even the threat of a hurricane but we experienced less tropical activity in this "bowling alley for hurricanes" than did the midwestern and northeastern regions of America. Seems that we have the increasingly frequent El Nino effect to thank for that. Regardless, this last year has been notably the most unusual weather-wise that we can recall ever observing, with the major difference being that specific types of weather typically reserved for certain months was exchanged with the typical weather for other months, whether forward or backward exchanges. And of course the noticeably prolonged hot weather season starting early and ending late along with record high tides gives us cause for concern here on the low lying coastal/swamp region. But hey, it's now the cool dry season, with the start of tourist season, time to enjoy the nice time of the year here, altho crowded, and have an end of hurricane season hurricane party in honor of Hurricane Hedonism, and forget that a new hurricane season is now only six months away...
July 4th, 2009 - A "big eagle" sunrise for the fourth, happy day...
We have a video of the spectacular grand finale from the fireworks on the broadwalk webpage if you are interested in how they do fireworks for the fourth on Hollywood Beach...
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. .And, even more sunrise videos are available on the "Archives" page.
.If viewing the videos sparked an interest in more information on visiting this area, click on "Visit Here".
.Links to other video pages: Sunsets, Flora, Fauna, Nature, Beach, Broadwalk, Clouds, Boats, Best Sunsets.
.If you would like to check out a map of the general location on North Beach from which most of the sunrise videos are taken click on this link for a Google map of the area -- once there, if you select "street view", then click three or four times on the arrow at "3 o'clock" in the circle in the upper left hand corner to rotate the view to the right to get to the view of the ocean, then the palm trees should look familiar if you have seen some of the videos that include them...or (before going into "street view") you could "zoom out" using the controls on the left side to get a perspective of the area, with the green area to the left where most of the sunset videos are taken.
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