Florida Weather

[gsytch]

Some tropical QUICK downpours overnight/this morning have helped a little. They lasted but a few minutes, but on top of my watering it will help for the day. What we need is a good t-storm but thunder has been rare this summer. I've heard a little in the distance often but not nearly close enough to scoot me inside. Odd.

[Hurricaneman]

Had a quick shower earlier

[gsytch]

..and the hot dry humid summer goes on!~

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

Had a crazy crazy bout of rain down the street last night. We were out eating and it had started pouring for about 15 minutes at dusk, then 20 minutes later I notice the flood alert calling out the street thats maybe a mile south of where we were. Apparently they picked up inches in less than an hour - enough to flood streets in Coconut Creek (Sample-Copans and Lyons). Storm just sort of sat over them for an hour and didn't really move (except barely south from over ME.)

[gsytch]

That's what kills me. Since laqst Friday's deluge, we are just so bone dry now. It goes all around. It is so frustrating. I've lived here since the 80's and never have I seen such erratic rainfall as in the past few years. This spring - we were well above normal EXCEPT it all fell in 3 big storm events. In between nothing. June's total was well under 2" with sunny skies every day and 95F with a stiff seabreeze. My poor yard and shadehouses are just drying out daily now! ARGHHHHHHHH

[Florida1118]

Power went out at my house for about 9 hours. It was about 89 in my house, and im not even going to try eating anything in the fridge. Lovely day

[gsytch]

tHUNDERED for two hours. Total rainfall = zero once again.

[EmeraldCoast93]

Well I think we made up for a good bit of the drought up here in the panhandle.

Rainfall totals today:
Valparaiso - 7.61 inches
Destin - 5.72 inches
Crestview - 2.02 inches
Hurlburt Field - 1.62 inches
Panama City - 1.45 inches

And it's still raining in some of these places.

[gsytch]

Tropical Wave- all at once and nothing in between? Like us! Here in New Port Richey we've had a little over 5" for July. 4.4" fell in less than 24 hours on the 7th/8th nada since then other than a brief shower. Amazing how 9 days without any rain in this heat and sunshine (barely any clouds lately) can fry out the landscape. They SAY today is best chance. We'll see. Glad to see the PH getting some much needed rain.

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

We've been lucky down in Broward/Dade and have seen rain nearly every day this week. PBC too. However the rest of the weekend looks dry as a bone with subsidence capping any convection.

[weatherSnoop]

A wonderful late night T-storm passing by my house tonight. I love it, though my poor dog hates the thunder

[gsytch]

A whopping 3/10" inch Friday is all we have seen in 2 weeks. Thunder is fairly often but rainfall just goes somewhere else. This has been a frustrating summer. My yard is frying up, and its time to get the hose out again. This is getting real old.

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

90L (ex-90l?) is expected to bring a nice burst of extra moisture to the southern part of FL. Easterlies should persist though so just passing storms only for the metroes on the way to the interior.

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

nice big storm sat over the Everglades for a while to the west of us, and just now we have a wicked electrical storm rolling in off the water.

[gsytch]

Well, it is sunday and another week of barely any rainfall. Big storms surrounded us on Tue, Thur and Fri. TOTAL rainfall for the week was .40" in about four hours of rain. That means just light rain falling. I was at the gym in Trinity (5 miles east of the city) and it poured for 10 mins. The kind of downpour I once remembered. Yesterday I got the hose out and watered the shrubs as they were wilting. Azaleas were wilting, coleus, the roses have stopped growing, even my Plumeria were wilting and they love it dryish. In 3 weeks we have totaled about an inch in 4 rains. St Pete got pummeled again, 3rd time this week a huge storm settled in. Maybe I should plant cactus?

[psyclone]

we should see very good thunderstorm coverage today with the atmosphere juiced up and cooling aloft.

[AdamFirst]

Confirmed tornado blew through Tamarac in Broward County today.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/browar ... 1735.story

[gsytch]

Finally, typical Florida weather the past week. Even here in the "desert" OF TAMPA BAY, we have had on and off showers, some heavy! 2 inches of rain in the past week (I know, normally that is a blip but July, other than one deluge, was quite dry). Tornadoes are so common in summer, thankfully weak. I;ve seen waterspouts come ashore here often, but again weaker. Now we shall see what TS Emily does to us...drying out or just a weak passby.

[dizzyfish]

Hope Emily doesn't dry us up here more than we already are. We will surely turn into a desert if we get any drier. All we get are teaser sprinkles (12 drops) and thunder for hours on end. (seriously!)

[gsytch]

Boy dizzyfish, how have you missed it? What part of NPR? While we have not had soakers, and yesterday missed us but for 1/10" of an inch, it did pour Tue and Wed for nearly an inch. I'm near Gulf mIddle/Louisiana-congress.....Hope today has better luck! Hate to see it dry out after getting some decent rains...not great, just decent. Greg