Tampa, FL weather
Right now 76°, mostly cloudy · today 85° / 73°, thunderstorm · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 76° · mostly cloudy · wind ENE 7 mph · 3° cooler than this time yesterday · at Peter O Knight, 5:35 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Isolated rain showers before 8am, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between 9am and 2pm, then widespread showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. High near 85, with temperatures falling to around 81 in the afternoon. South southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
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Winter in Tampa
Tampa sees essentially no snow in an average year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a essentially snowless place. Measurable snow is close to unheard of. On the rare occasion it falls, everything stops.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 0 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 0.5 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Tampa
The nearest radiosonde launch is Tampa Bay, about 18 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Tampa (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 4:16 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.