What's the weather like after hurricane passes?

[jmi256]

What's the weather like after a hurricane passes? Say 12-24 hours later? Would it still be raining/storming or clear? Both scenarios make sense I guess.

[Myersgirl]

HOT and STILL

[Extremeweatherguy]

-After TS Gabrielle in Sept. 2001 it was in the lower 60s the next morning in Orlando.

-The day after Hurricane Charley in Orlando it was muggy with a T-storm late in the day and not much wind.

-The days after Hurricane Frances and Jeanne in Orlando were partly cloudy and breezy if I remember correctly.

-The day after Hurricane Rita in Houston was Windy with gusts to 40mph all day and slightly less humidity.

It really all depends on the situation..and above are just a few examples that come to mind. Hope that helps.

[Diva]

HOT...HOT...HOT...HOT...HOT...oh, and no electricity so no A/C...did I tell you it was HOT!

[cinlfla]

Hot humid lots of bugs

[Extremeweatherguy]

Oh yeah, and BTW: some of my family who live in Orlando, FL told me they could see their breath after Wilma passed. It supposedly dropped into the 50s after the storm with a supposed "windchill" (rare for FL in October) all day.

[Myersgirl]

HOT...HOT...HOT...HOT...HOT...oh, and no electricity so no A/C...did I tell you it was HOT!

yeah ... that HOT... HOT and no way to avoid the damn HOT... I cooled down after a crying for an hour

[SouthFloridawx]

After wilma it was cold here in S. Fla with no power in the tri-county area. It was the darkest I have ever seen here in 4 years.

[drudd1]

Noisy as all get out with all those generators going

Mine was one of them!

[HollynLA]

Unbeleivably HOT and calm. With no a/c to cool you off, the heat gets almost unbearable, especially when you're outside patching a hot roof or picking up debris in the yard. The air is so still, no wind or breeze whatsoever. I still haven't forgotten what is was like after Katrina, absolutely miserable x 20.

[tracyswfla]

Oh yeah, and BTW: some of my family who live in Orlando, FL told me they could see their breath after Wilma passed. It supposedly dropped into the 50s after the storm with a supposed "windchill" (rare for FL in October) all day.

IT was cool with a nice breeze. Very comfortable for 6 days without electricity.

[docjoe]

We had daily heat indices of 105-110 the first week or two after Dennis. The night after Ivan was downright pleasant. Crystal clear and in the low 60s. The number of stars that could be seen was phenomenal. Fall canes are better than summer canes in my opinion as far as weather

docjoe

[AL Chili Pepper]

Most of the time it is really hot. I thought the first two weeks after Frederic would never end. I remember a couple of times where it was actually pleasant though...after Juan in '85 and Opal. Both of those were late season.

[Grease Monkey]

You have curfews like 9pm. My neighborhood gets very dark. The only thing you can do is just go to sleep unless you have a generator. I just remember it being very boring at night and feeling trapped in my own house because of the curfews.

[Aslkahuna]

Fall hurricanes tend to be running up ahead of a cold front so after they pass by the front goes through and the air is cooler and drier. This was the case with Wilma. Summer hurricanes OTOH are imbedded in a tropical airmass so it tends to be hot and quite humid following passage with the humidity especially noticeable because of the wetness of the ground from the storm rains.

Steve

[SarahINMobile]

Honestly, it is pretty much like any other day of the summer, but having no A/C makes it much worse than "any other day". Sometimes you have the normal afternoon thunderstorm, sometimes not. Sometimes the temps drop, sometimes it is even hotter than normal. Literally, it is pretty much like any other summer day/night.

PS - I learned a wise lesson last year after Katrina, so I wanted to share my wisdom. DO NOT decide that your yard needs to be the first yard cleaned after the storm and try to do it in the middle of the day with no AC. I thought I was seriously going to have a heat stroke last year, and I was only 23. Even my car's AC provided no relief...it was horrible. Next year my yard will be done when I get my power back!!! Good luck to everyone in SOFLA

[timNms]

After Katrina's worst was done on the evening of the 29th, it was mostly cloudy with a nice breeze. The night was pleasant. But MAN, was it hot the next day and for 2 weeks afterward...Clear, hot, humid and no AC because there was no electricity. The only shade one could find to sit in outside was the shadow that the house made cause all of the trees were either completely stripped of foilage or there was so little foilage left in them that the only shade they made was from their branches.
At night it was still, hot, humid, and sticky. It was almost impossible to sleep in the house so we slept on my mom's front porch. Of course, we had to fight the mosquitoes. WE did that for 4 nights, but then on Saturday, my wife's sister from Chattanooga brought us a small generator. It was powerful enough to run my mom's fridge and a fan. We slept inside after that, but I had to get up every 4 hours to fill the tank on the generator. Otherwise, we'd all be hot again lol. Then, about a week after the storm, the LUV BUGS came...and I'm talking in the millions! I've NEVER seen so many in my lifetime. In a normal year, they swarm, splat on the windshields of cars, and are a minor bother if one is outside, but this time, one couldn't even go outside without those things getting all over you. My car would be covered in them. My car is white...when the love bugs came, it was black!!! Seriously! We spept them out of the house in piles..they came in thru any small opening they could find..

To sum it up.... It is quite miserable after a hurricane.

[baygirl_1]

I think it depends on the time of year in which the storm hits. It was really hot after Frederic, as someone pointed out in a previous post. I remember it being hot after Elena, also. Both of those were September storms. We were pretty hot after Katrina last year and, thankfully, were only without power for three days. However, I remember it being pretty cool after Opal. That was an October storm and, if memory serves, it was funnled into our part of the coast by a cold front. So, it was probably the cold front that actually cooled things off.
Also, at night, the bugs are usually really bad. In Fort Walton, after Opal, I thought the black biting flies were going to be the death of us!

[dmaui]

Right after - usually the air is a bit drier but the breezes are still around. Actually can be pretty nice. But without power it quickly heats up, the humidity kicks in and I am very glad to have access to a private spring down the road for when I can't take it any more!

[johngaltfla]

HOT.HOT.HOT.HOT. You feel like you've been put into a steam room.

And that's just the evenings.

It's hotter in the day time.