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Florida Climate Center

 

The Florida Climate Center serves as the primary resource for climate data, information, and services in the state of Florida.

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The Florida Climate Center achieves its mission by providing climate monitoring, research, and expertise to be applied by the people, institutions, and businesses of Florida and the surrounding region.

We provide direct service by fulfilling requests for climate and weather data and information in a variety of formats.

We perform research that advances the understanding of the climate variability and changes of Florida and the surrounding region.

We provide outreach in presentations and at events aimed at a variety of groups, interests, and ages.

Explore the relationship between sea surface temperatures (SST) and hurricane strength.

Note that ocean temperatures change with each season.

 

Instructions and options you can use

  • Drag the hurricane around to see the effect surface temperature has on the hurricane.
  • Drag the High around to see how pressure and winds influence hurricane paths.
  • Type "r" to reset the position and size to start over.
  • Click on the season to rotate through the 4 seasons.

 

This applet is Copyright © 2011 by the American Meteorological Society.
This applet was developed by Ira Geer (AMS), Robert Weinbeck (AMS), and Tom Whittaker (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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Phone: (850) 644-3417 | (850) 644-0719
climate@coaps.fsu.edu

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