Florida Weather

[gatorcane]

Here we go again. Tons of rain falling along the coast here in SE Palm Beach County. We are getting some of the fringe effects from Cristobal as we are seeing a deep tropical moisture plume straight from the Caribbean.

[AdamFirst]

Super soaker of a day here. I work in Stuart and it was a relentless deluge most of the morning.

[toad strangler]

Super soaker of a day here. I work in Stuart and it was a relentless deluge most of the morning.

I work in Stuart as well and there was major flooding on SE Dixie Hwy. just south of Indian Street. I mean white caps and all .....

[TheStormExpert]

Yesterday afternoons NWS: Miami forecast discussion is probably the first time I've seen the Bermuda High mentioned this year. Here are some tidbits from it.

An active afternoon should continue as a 500mb short wave sits
just to the north of the area. At the surface, a Bermuda high is
bringing a southeasterly flow. There is also a wave of deep sub
tropical moisture moving through the area.

The Bermuda high has
been helping to steer the convection to the northwest, away from
the Atlantic metro area this afternoon, although still not able to
rule out some isolated activity through the evening.

An upper level disturbance, together with a Bermuda high and some
subtropical moisture are bringing SHRA and TSRA to a good part of
South Florida through the evening hours.

[TheStormExpert]

The drought throughout Florida is quickly being erased.

 https://twitter.com/JimCantore/status/1268524301709463553

[TheStormExpert]

Does anyone in South Florida think the NWS: Miami will continue the Flood Watch past 8am tomorrow morning considering that rain chances stay elevated through at least the next several days?

[chaser1]

Does anyone in South Florida think the NWS: Miami will continue the Flood Watch past 8am tomorrow morning considering that rain chances stay elevated through at least the next several days?

I would expect that you guys would continue to be under a Flood Watch given the heavy fetch of moisture continuing to be pushed up from the south. Here in the Orlando area, we've generally been receiving less then coastal areas but we've now been added under an expanded Flood Watch. I don't expect to see any street flooding in my immediate area but a solid 3"-4" seems reasonable.

[toad strangler]

Heavy rains moving in from the S yet again on the FL E Coast after a reprieve on Thursday.

[TheStormExpert]

Tornado reported near the downtown Orlando area within the last hour.

 https://twitter.com/news6justin/status/1269415099254673408




 https://twitter.com/weatherbryan/status/1269412590318485505

[northjaxpro]

Any other news/reports on the damages or injuries to people from the Orlando downtown area?

[TheStormExpert]

Any other news/reports on the damages or injuries to people from the Orlando downtown area?

Haven’t heard anything. Likely considering it struck right before dark. If I had to guess it was likely a EF-0 or EF-1 with minor structural damage, that’s just my guess.

[TheStormExpert]

Looks like we’re going to get a backdoor cold front on Wednesday here in Florida. Tidbit from this afternoon’s NWS: Miami discussion.

Wednesday through Friday...

Flow then gradually returns out of the east by mid to late week
as the southwestern extension of the Atlantic ridge builds,
propelling a backdoor cold front across South Florida. Given the
aforementioned moisture already in place, convective coverage
could become more scattered to numerous on Wednesday from east to
west as the front pushes through the region. As the front washes
out, PWATS drop between 1.0 to 1.5 inches with drier air working
it`s way into the area. However, 30 to 40 percent POPs remain in
the forecast through the remainder of the period as a TUTT-like
feature over the western Atlantic fuses with a digging longwave
trough over the Florida peninsula. These lowering mid- level
heights should help provide favorable, synoptically driven lift
for showers and thunderstorms initiation across the area each
afternoon.

[northjaxpro]

We hit the rainfall bonanza here in Northeast Florida as very.heavy tropical rsins have dumped tremendous rainfall amounts, especiaily overnight and continues here at my station. We are sitting at 4.8 inches, but that was before this current wave of rain moving through my locale . We are going to be adding more to the gauge here shortly in rainfall amounts before this event ends here with Cristobal's tropical envelope here in the next 36 hours. The cyclone will move away up the Mississippi River Valley rregion the next couple of days.

Wow, on May 25, I did not have any significant rain measured for May. We had Tropical Storm Bertha come along and gave us 1.8 inches total. Now Cristobal's far reaching effects has brought us more than 3 times the rain Bertha did.

The power of Mother Nature!! She never ceases to amaze me! It goes from one extreme to another. It happens like this seemingly all the time!

Also, I am wondering about Downtown Orlando and the tornado that touched down there last night. I have not heard much about damages or potential injuries there. Great footage I saw of that tornado last night as well.

[toad strangler]

Have had 16" of rain on the Treasure Coast since starting on May 16th. I'm lookin for a break.

[HurricaneBelle]

Here on the west coast, we're getting our typical tropical-storm-in-the-Gulf weather. First we get a lot of rain and not much wind, and then once the storm's center crosses our latitude the winds shift to S and SW and start gusting, it's been blowing with gusts 30-35 at times and now the rain has pretty much stopped.

[Patrick99]

It hasn't rained a drop in my area of Miami for pretty much a week now, though it has been cloudy. I am kind of surprised at that, I feel like normally, with tropical storms in that position in the Gulf, a "tail" often sets up over the peninsula and gives us a fair bit of rain.

[northjaxpro]

Cristobal really, really gave us a deluge, not only across my locale, but across most of North and Northeast Florida. The lopsided cyclone brought a very rich supply of deep tropical moisture to the region.

My final tally here at my locale was just under 7.25 inches. Most areas on average received 4-6 inches, although there were localized areas with up to 7 inches, like my home station. I was expecting the heaviest rainfall areas to be farther west over the Big Bend and the Panhandle. But Cristobal's lopsided structure was much more far reaching from the CoC, and the cyclone landfalled quite a bit farther east than what most of the model guidance showed, even back on Saturday. These factors were huge in terms of our massive rain totals from this event, which concluded last night.

So, how quickly things change! We went from having virtually no rain measured of any significance during the month of May across Northeast Florida, just over two weeks ago, to flooding concerns across some areas over the region. I have picked up just over 9 inches of rainfall since May 25, thanks to T.S. Bertha and T.S. Cristobal. Drought over Lol..

Mother Nature! She never ceases to amaze me!

[northjaxpro]

I talked to a buddy of mine who coordinates with The NWS Tallahassee office, who informed him that portions of the Suwanee River Valley and Eastern Big Bend region ended up getting from 7 inches to up to 12 inches of rainfall in Suwanee County and Hamilton County, from Cristobal over the weekend.

[psyclone]

WPC QPF estimates consistently showed the big bend of Florida would be the big winner in Cristobol related rainfall. they were on target. It's nice to see the sun again and a more typical convective regime..

[psyclone]

Classic west coast seabreeze collision on the docket this evening. Whopper storms will head westward