El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Florida Dry Season "Storminess"

Storminess Decision Central

Bart Hagemeyer
NWS Melbourne, Florida

Latest research report on Florida storminess and ENSO.

"Storminess" in the Florida dry season is described as the frequency of extratropical cyclone (or low pressure system) passages. Hagemeyer (2000) contains details on the development of an index of storminess for the Florida dry season. What follows is a simple qualitative discussion on the concept of storminess and the development of the index to measure dry season storminess for the purpose of experimentally forecasting dry season storminess from the El Nino Southern Oscillation signal.