Lake Okeechobee: Lake-O is back to normal mode

[jinftl]

Falling faster and faster...down to 11.69 feet as of 4/14...fallen 1/4 of a foot in just the last week!
http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

[jinftl]

Water level 11.44 feet as of 4/23/09
http://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/losac/sfwmd.asp

[HURAKAN]

Water level 11.02 feet as of 5/04/09
http://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/losac/sfwmd.asp

[jinftl]

Water level 10.98 feet as of latest reading....
http://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/losac/sfwmd.asp

[boca]

By the end of May the lake will be down to 9 to 10 ft like I said in March.

[jinftl]

Down to 10.72 feet as of last reading.
http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/reports/r-oke.txt

[DanKellFla]

Okeechobee Lake Regulation Elevation Last Year 2YRS Ago
(ft-NGVD) (ft-NGVD) (ft-NGVD)
*Okeechobee Lake Elevation 10.55 9.80 9.28 (Official Elv)


Still falling, but not as fast.

[DanKellFla]

Lake Okeechobee water level as of May 21, 2009

10.60 ft.



Going up.

[boca]

Lake O is now at 10.66ft. As of May 21st.

[Stephanie]

That's great news!

I know that you're getting way to much rain in one shot, but this was probably the only way that Florida was going to get rid of it's drought, other than by a tropical storm or hurricane. I guess we could consider it a fortunate set of circumstances that it wasn't a tropical storm or hurricane.

[HURAKAN]

Lake Okeechobee water level as of May 22, 2009

10.77 ft.

More great news!

[jinftl]

Not so fast....Lake O dropped to 10.75 feet (-0.02 from prior day) as of latest update.
http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/reports/r-oke.txt

Still 2.44 feet below normal for the date....

[boca]

The title in this threat should be changed. The water level is at 10.77ft. its leveled off.Apparently the rain we had wasn't enough to really raise the water level in Lake O. I would of thought with the amount of rain we had it would of been around 12 ft.

http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page?_pagei ... ema=PORTAL

[DanKellFla]

I don't think the rain fell on the Kissimee basin. I know that there was a lot of rain on the easter side of Volusia county. Maybe that doesn't go into the Kissismmee river.
I do know that the lake behind my house has gone up by a foot. It is as high as it usually gets this time of year.

[HURAKAN]

Lake Okeechobee water level as of May 26, 2009

10.79 ft.

[gatorcane]

Lake Okeechobee water level as of May 26, 2009

10.79 ft.

Lake O about ready to get around 5 inches of rain with the cells moving over.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid= ... 11&loop=no

[artist]

are they still releasing? i am wondering since we have gotten so much rain in this area and the grounds are soaked and beginning to spill over here in north central Palm Beach county. Our pond is rising quickly with every rain we get now. It better slow down.

[gatorcane]

are they still releasing? i am wondering since we have gotten so much rain in this area and the grounds are soaked and beginning to spill over here in north central Palm Beach county. Our pond is rising quickly with every rain we get now. It better slow down.

Rainy season started earlier than normal this year -- it will all depend on the long-wave patterns that setup across the Eastern CONUS -- and the presence of any tropical systems impacting our region.

This week will feature abundant rain and some strong/severe storms for the SE Coast metro areas as wind flow is SW to NE at the low-levels and aloft with a couple of short-waves passing through which will cool the upper atmosphere a great deal....

Looks like we go back to an east wind regime by this weekend though, with some dry air intrusion behind a washed out trough....at any rate -- I'm thinking we may have a very wet summer indeed here in Southern Florida.

[artist]

thanks, I will be hoping for that break this weekend!

[HURAKAN]

Lake Okeechobee water level as of May 27, 2009

10.87 ft.

Lets see tomorrow, I may need to change the title.