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Steve Weagle is chief meteorologist for WPTV Channel 5. He can be reached by e-mail at swweagle@scripps.com
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77° 65°
82° 54°
70° 48°
75° 58°
79° 66°
Partly sunny.
Isolated showers.
Sunny; cooler.
Partly sunny.
Isolated showers.
Winds: ESE 10-15 mph Chance of rain 5%
Winds: SSW 15-25 mph Chance of rain 30%
Winds: NW 6-12 mph Chance of rain 0%
Winds: ENE 5-10 mph Chance of rain 5%
Winds: SSE 6-12 mph Chance of rain 30%
Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Sunrise tomorrow Sunset tomorrow
UV Index: 4
UV Index: 4
YeSterdaY’S alManac
Melbourne 78/66 Palm Bay 78/67 Fellsmere 79/65
treaSure coaSt Noon humidity: 46% Pollen index: moderate, 4.9 (on a scale of 0 to 12) caused by palm, juniper
Sebastian 78/66
vero Beach Temperature High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low
Vero Beach 79/66
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Ft. Pierce 78/66 Port St. Lucie 78/67
Okeechobee 77/63
Stuart 78/67
Hobe Sound 78/69 Indiantown 79/66
Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Jupiter 79/68
Ocean temperature: 71° Today Hi Lo W
Tomorrow Hi Lo W
74 79 80 74 72 79 78 80 79 80 75 77 71 77 71 71 76 79
78 82 81 72 71 80 82 82 81 79 75 79 59 77 74 67 76 82
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43 62 57 37 36 70 47 63 65 58 38 46 34 53 40 34 48 59
76°/52° 73°/53° 84° in 2002 23° in 1989
Precipitation 24 hrs ending 5 p.m. Rainfall since Dec. 1 December average Past 12 months Normal past 12 months Rain deficit last 12 mos.
trace 3.33” 2.37” 50.23” 51.93” 1.70”
Ft. pierce/port St. lucie Temperature High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low
West Palm Beach 79/71 95
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UV Index: 4
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Boating ForecaSt
Wind southeast 6-12 knots today. Waves 1-2 feet. Intracoastal waters a light chop. Visibility clear.
76°/52° 73°/54° 86° in 1997 19° in 1989
Precipitation 24 hrs ending 5 p.m. Rainfall since Dec. 1 December average Past 12 months Normal past 12 months Rain deficit last 12 mos.
trace 3.47” 2.13” 44.68” 53.50” 8.82”
Stuart Temperature High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low
75°/52° 74°/57° 87° in 1956 38° in 1995
Precipitation 24 hrs ending 5 p.m. Rainfall since Dec. 1 December average Past 12 months Normal past 12 months Rain deficit last 12 mos.
0.00” 3.99” 2.90” 44.11” 59.53” 15.42”
Yesterday’s national extremes (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 84° at Corpus Christi, TX Low: -18° at Hazen, ND
Solunar taBleS
lake okeechoBee (feet above sea level)
Best times for hunting and fishing
* Lowest level with flood control releases from the lake out the St. Lucie Spillway. Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri.
Regulation level* Yesterday’s avg. (1965-2007) Level yesterday
treaSure coaSt tideS Sebastian Inlet Vero Beach (Barber Brdg) Fort Pierce Inlet St. Lucie Inlet Stuart Causeway Jupiter Inlet
High
5:41a 9:25a 6:15a 5:30a 7:10a 6:19a
13.56 14.67 15.07
dEC. 25 Low High
11:50a 3:27a 12:13p 11:39a 1:32a 12:05p
Low
a.m. Major Minor 8:50 2:38 9:33 3:21 10:19 4:07 11:07 4:55
5:41p ——— 9:25p 3:55p 6:15p ——— 5:30p 11:53p 7:10p 2:00p 6:19p ———
p.m. Major Minor 9:13 3:01 9:58 3:46 10:44 4:31 11:31 5:19
dEC. 26 High Low
6:23a 10:07a 6:57a 6:12a 7:52a 7:01a
High
Low
12:04a 6:24p 12:31p 4:09a 10:08p 4:36p 12:27a 6:58p 12:54p 12:20p 6:13p ——— 2:14a 7:53p 2:41p 12:19a 7:02p 12:46p
UNITEd STATES Albany Albuquerque Allentown Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte Charlottesville Chattanooga Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth Erie Evansville Ft. Wayne Grand Rapids Green Bay Harrisburg Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS Kansas City Knoxville Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville Newark New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Providence Raleigh Reno Richmond Rochester St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco St. Ste. Marie Savannah
UV Index: 4 Today Hi Lo W
Tomorrow Hi Lo W
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32 43 39 27 51 54 48 44 50 7 37 37 31 26 32 72 49 58 45 54 33 42 36 64 36 32 38 34 18 34 15 35 38 31 31 28 36 36 29 81 50 34 46 21 54 52 41 62 46 27 38 33 16 48 41 53 40 65 25 14 43 64 33 32 43 39 61 40 56 33 31 36 52 62 55 22 69
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. KEY W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice
Seattle 41 Sioux Falls 11 South Bend 33 Springfield, IL 35 Springfield, MO 36 Syracuse 32 Toledo 34 Tucson 57 Tulsa 32 Washington, DC 48 Wichita 22 Wilkes-Barre, PA 40 Wilmington, NC 63
CANAdA Calgary Halifax Montreal Ottawa Quebec St. John’s Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg WORLd Algiers Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Beirut Belgrade Berlin Bermuda Brisbane Brussels Budapest Cairo Copenhagen Dublin Edinburgh Frankfurt Geneva Helsinki
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0 -14 29 19 16 7 20 10 16 1 33 24 31 23 42 37 0 -16
-4 -8 33 31 17 14 18 17 14 11 31 23 31 23 42 37 -3 -14
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63 44 65 74 68 92 22 67 56 45 71 82 47 41 68 41 45 42 47 44 30
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68 79 78 47 57 72 66 61 51 77 66 74 43 41 70 73 67 51 78 73 66 52 69
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88 88 86 66 75 86 81 83 74 88 79 91 73 56 83 90 92 66 95 85 82 81 87
71 68 77 46 59 71 67 62 55 78 66 75 43 39 69 73 67 49 77 72 66 54 70
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COACH OF THE YEAR LENNY JANKOWSKI
‘All-in’ approach helps Vero Beach to successful season By Laurel Pfahler laurel.pfahler@scripps.com 772-978-2282
VERO BEACH — Vero Beach football coach Lenny Jankowski wasn’t sure what to expect from his offense this season. With all new skill players and the loss of two assistants from his staff, the second-year head coach figured he was in for a challenge. But the Fighting Indians didn’t look like a team rebuilding. Not even at one point early on when there wasn’t a single offensive starter from last year on the field. Vero Beach went on to rack up 31.3 points and an area-best 360.8 yards per game, while the defense that underperformed last year stepped up to hold opponents under 12 points a game. By the end of it, Jankowski had guided the Indians to their first district title — and playoff win — since 2008. As a result he is the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers’ AllArea Football Coach of the Year. “I was very pleased with the season,” Jankowski said. “I lost those mainstay coaches on the offensive side of the ball and had a whole new skill group, so I didn’t have big predictions with this offensive group. So much was unknown, but the players responded. ... It was a fun challenge. It was always a work in progress, but we continued to get better each week, and with the defense playing as well as it was and special teams doing well, all that worked together to put together a pretty good season.”
Coach of the Year
LENNY JANKOWSKI
Vero Beach, second year This season: Guided the Fighting Indians to a 9-2 finish and the program’s first district title and playoff win since 2008. Despite replacing all its skill players on offense, Vero Beach averaged 31.3 points and an area-best 360.8 yards per game, and a much-improved, but undersized defense limited opponents to 11.64 points and 220.9 yards per game. The team’s only regular-season loss was to Class 7A regional finalist Fort Pierce Central. Quotable: “I feel like the program is headed in the right direction. We played a lot of great football, we have a lot of great players and everyone is excited about what we’re doing. We only had a couple of losses, and those losses are always painful, but when you put the season to rest and can’t do anything but look forward, it was a season to celebrate what we accomplished. We won a district championship and got a big playoff win. We were arguably one of the teams in the largest classificaton that can have a chance to win every week.”
While Jankowski’s offense as led by 2,500-yard passer Dalton Stokes and a crew of talented receivers, he said it was the defense that made the biggest difference. An undersized defensive line outperformed expectations, the linebackers made plays at the line of scrimmage that previously would have happened eight yards down field and a starstudded secondary lived up to its hype to shut down even the best receivers. “They were the most consistent on a regular basis,” Jankowski said of his defense. “We had eight senior starters, and when you get that senior leadership, it’s a good thing.” Though Jankowski and the Indians were hoping for a deeper run in the playoffs, he called their District 8-8A title and re-
gional quarterfinal win against Palm Harbor University a “step in the right direction.” Jankowski credited the “all-in” mentality of his players who “unselfishly worked toward the ultimate goal of doing the best they could as a team.” The players bought into their “all-in” team motto to improve on a district runner-up, regional quarterfinal finish from last year. “That’s always been the thing I’ve tried to hang my hat on as a coach, is being able to connect with players, and we had that unity with the players and the coaches,” Jankowski said. “We decided back in the spring it was the approach we wanted to take. We knew we needed to get better each week and I think we did that to where we were playing our best football at the end of the season.”
DEBORAH SILVER/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS
Lenny Jankowski is the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers’ 2012 All-Area Football Coach of the Year.