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Hernando Weathers A Low; Tampa Feels Brooksville's Pain

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 16, 2008

Updated: 04/16/2008 09:39 am

TAMPA - A second morning of January weather greeted Tampa Bay area residents, with temperatures settling in at the middle 40s and wind chill in the lower 40s.

But that was steamy compared with counties to the north where the thermometer hovered just above freezing and forecasters expected patchy frost.

Brooksville set a record low for April 16 with 34 degrees at the county airport. The previous record for Brooksville was 43 degrees in 2007 -- but also in 1952 and 1950.

Tampa never came close to its low of 43 for April 16. The difference between Tampa and Brooksville was a light wind that kept up through the night in Tampa. In Hernando County the wind died about 1 a.m.

Even a wind of 5 or 6 mph will stir the air enough to keep temperatures up a few degrees and not let as much of the ground's warmth radiate into the air.

The airport at Lakeland tied the record for today with 46 degrees, the same temperature as the record set in 2007.

Right now, the National Weather Service is calling for Thursday morning to be another chilly one and possibly set more low temperature records north of Tampa.

A record for Tampa on Thursday is not likely. The forecast calls for 50 degrees, and the record for April 17 of 43 was set in 1962.

Thursday should do it, though, for the sweaters and jackets.

Forecasters are saying that by the end of the week we will see temperatures more typical of our spring, meaning warm and dry.

Some forecast models show another front working its way toward the Tampa Bay area during the weekend, but forecasters in Ruskin think it will stall to our north and not have much effect on our weather.

Instead, they expect high pressure to settle over the region and push up temperatures and keep down chances of rain.

Temperatures, the weather service said, should hit the high 80s by Monday and Tuesday, which would be a swing of about 15 or so degrees above the high for today.

The temperatures we've seen lately of 70s and 40s are more akin to a typical day in January.

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