FORECASTERS GOT THE COLD SHOULDER
Chill expected to give way to temperatures in mid-70s this weekend.
Palm Beach County temperatures plummeted into the 30s early Thursday, defying forecasters’ warmer predictions and marking the first time since 2014 that the official reading in West Palm Beach sank below 40 degrees twice in one month.
The temperature at Palm Beach International Airport bottomed out at 39 degrees near dawn Thursday. That followed a 38-degree morning Jan. 4.
According to National Weather Service records, January 2014 was the last time temperatures at the airport dipped below 40 degrees twice. No temperatures in the 30s were recorded at the airport in 2017 or 2016.
“If it’s going to get cold, January and early February are the times when we expect to see it,” said Dan Kottlowski, an AccuWeather senior meteorologist. “This year, the sweaters and jackets have had to come out.”
The South Florida chill won’t last long. While today’s high temperature is forecast to reach only into the high 60s, Saturday should be back into the low 70s with Sunday climbing into the mid-70s. The normal high temperature for this time of year is 75 degrees.
Brian and Jane McQuillen, who GET THE APP
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are visiting South Florida from Pennsylvania, were happy they kept their winter coats with them after not packing many warm clothes for their vacation. They stayed in Port St. Lucie for a month during the same time in 2017 and said the warm weather persuaded them to leave the long-sleeved shirts at home this year.
“This is still wonderful for us,” said Brian McQuillen, who was enjoying the sunshine at Midtown Beach in Palm Beach on Thursday rather than shoveling the 7 inches of snow that fell near his home in Pennsylvania.
Jupiter and Belle Glade tied for the coolest temperatures Thursday morning at 36 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Miami. Wellington was at 37 degrees, Boynton Beach hit 38 degrees and Boca Raton fell to 43 degrees.
On Wednesday afternoon, meteorologists predicted a 43-degree low for Thursday at Palm Beach International Airport, and issued overnight wind chill advisories for
York Harbor.
The inscription there doesn’t call for “fully capitalized, hand-selected individuals a cut above the masses who are yearning to invest in small business opportunities.” It doesn’t instruct nations “to send us your doctors, your lawyers, your civil engineers from your teeming shore.”
Trump could use a respected voice in his party to supplement his Fox-News-thin sense of history. For example, on the day he was using “tough language” to say he didn’t want people from those poor countries coming here, it was the birthday of Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton, the founder of America’s financial system and the first secretary of the treasury, arrived in New York as an uneducated, orphaned teenager from the island of St. Croix. He came looking for opportunity and ended up on the $10 bill.
My grandparents also arrived in New York by ship. They emigrated from Italy after World War I. Both were uneducated, poor and barely adults. Neither spoke English.
My grandfather got a job driving a coal truck in Brooklyn. My grandmother worked in a sweatshop. They had an arranged marriage in their new homeland. Then they pioneered a new American family.
It’s a familiar story, and one to celebrate, not to disparage. The way to reform immigration isn’t to sort out country-club- ready people for entry.
It’s to keep the promise of those words on the Statue of Liberty.
Please help the president understand this,
Mr. Rubio. He needs to hear another interpretation of the word “merit” — the interpretation that has nothing to do with skin color or country of origin. The one that doesn’t have a language requirement or a degree.
You can do it, Mr.
Rubio. I know you have the words. You’ve used them so many times when they served your own personal gain.
Now you can use them to help others get ahead.
This is no time to go silent. Let’s hear about the bartender and the maid again.